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Syntactic inclusion of a.ml in b.ml ?

Sébastien Hinderer
- Richard Jones
  - Sébastien Hinderer
    - Radu Grigore
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        Radu Grigore
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    - William D.Neumann
    - Richard Jones
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From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Syntactic inclusion of a.ml in b.ml ?

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:51:47AM -0700, Robert Roessler wrote:
> When I look at OCaml source code, however, I see a *lot* of really 
> different free-form coding styles.  The only language element that 
> jumps out at me for folding is a simplistic handling of "let" 
> bindings... which might not be useful for anything more than to say 
> "Now with folding!" :)

I tend to write *giant* functions, with multiple levels of nesting, so
that (nested) functions appear as close as possible to their point of
application.  Not sure whether folding helps here ...

Rich.

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