On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:45:10PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2004 20:05, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Mmmm ... perhaps.  Actually I think 'unless' specifically is very
> > useful.  I've even written a trivial camlp4 extension for it, and we
> > use it in lots of Merjis code.
> 
> Unless does not sound like a common keyword.
> 
> Haskell style "where" would be excellent though. I was using it all the time 
> in Haskell.

Haskell is lazy, ocaml is strict. Consider following snippet of
``ocaml'':

let _ = f (x)
  where x = g ()

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.

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: Michal Moskal :: http://www.kernel.pl/~malekith : GCS {C,UL}++++$ a? !tv
: When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson : {E-,w}-- {b++,e}>+++ h

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