On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 05:11, David Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:50:43PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:

> Because its only a warning, not an error.  g is allowed to return any type.
> It could be argued that the loop expression must be of type unit, then this
> could also be inferred by type inference.

It can also be argued chosing unit for non-returning function
is the wrong choice and that correct choice is void.

In particular given

f: unit -> unit

you can write

f ( f () )

which is silly. Given

f: unit -> void

that expression won't type check. The result is to force
'commands' with side effects and no return values 
be 'top level' (or at least arguments of for, ';', etc).

This seems to work well in Felix.

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