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Camlp4 in a Unix pipe

Alessandro Baretta
- Hendrik Tews
  - Alessandro Baretta
    - Florian Hars
      - Alessandro Baretta
        
        Hendrik Tews
    - Christophe Raffalli
    - Hendrik Tews

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Florian Hars <hars@b...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4 in a Unix pipe

Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> Cool command line! How did you discover the '-' option? 

Out of habit? In the the unix shell monad, "foo >>= bar" happens to be written
as "foo | bar -" ("return" is written "cat", in case you wondered. So "Hey,
that is a useless use of cat!" really means 'Hey, you ignored the monad laws!")

Yours, Florian (time to go home, I know).