On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:24:39AM -0400, Peng Zang wrote:
> Part of what made OCaml 
> attractive for me was its compactness.  Take "[x::[y::[z::t]]]" for example, 
> it's quite nasty compared to just "x::y::z::t".
See http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-camlp4/manual007.html#toc20
there is an other syntax: [x; y; z :: t].

By the way, the revised syntax may ease moves through the code,
due to the presence of more brackets, from which one could jump
from one to another.