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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Michal Moskal <malekith@p...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request |
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:57:11PM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2003 8:04 pm, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > If we're going to be introducing gratuitous backwards incompatiblities,
> > can we please do it for something usefull? Like say replacing begin/end
> > with { and }.
>
> If I may be a beginner here: how does "begin ... end" differ from "( ... )"?
> In practice I've found them to be interchangable, but that could just be an
> accident.
No accident, they are just the same. It's matter of personal taste to
use one or another. begin ... end is used mainly in imperative contexts.
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