From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] naming parts of optional arguments?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:35:15 -0700

> 
> >No contradiction at all: ?xy: is a label, not a variable name.
> 
> Well, except for in this case, of course, when it is a variable name:
> 
> # let f ?xy () = xy;;
> val f : ?xy:'a -> unit -> 'a option = <fun>

Where do you see a ?xy: in the above source code?
?xy is a shorthand for ?xy:xy, as explained in the manual.
xy is the variable, not ?xy:.

Jacques Garrigue

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