Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> Just pretend parentheses are compulsory :).  (What would happen in C
> if we left the braces out anyway!  Go and change C instead, this will
> affect far more people!)

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.

E.