> C is interesting because the braces are optional, and people get into
> trouble often when they fail to use them.  And many people's solution is
> to treat the braces as non-optional.  I don't think this is as
> appropriate in ocaml because parens serve a second use: constructing
> tuples.  Since if/then returns a value, the difference of ; vs. ,
> results in a huge difference in what's going on.
>
> As for changing the C language, 1: it's already written in stone 2: it's
> not worth saving, ocaml is.

OCaml is mostly fine syntactically, and 'if' isn't a problem. If you
don't like using parentheses, use begin/end. Personally, I prefer
begin/end anyway.

Jonathan