On Tuesday 20 January 2004 21:37, David Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:54:45PM +0100, Michal Moskal wrote:
> > > > Now, the reader of the code might take false impression that f() is
> > > > executed before g(). Of course there is no such danger with function
> > > > definitions in where blocks, but still I think readability is the
> > > > reason it is absent from ocaml.
>
> The where clause works well for Haskell, because there are no order of
> evaluation issues.  Because of side-effects, the where clause in ocaml
> would usually just end up being confusing.  Think of a multi-page
> expression with a where clause at the end.  Not that this is good code,
> but it would sure be easy to miss.  It would probably cause the same
> kinds of problems that C's 'break' causes in switch statements.

I disagree. Think of a multi-page expression with a let clause in the 
beginning.

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