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Should a /\ operator be possible?
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| From: | Hezekiah M. Carty <hcarty@a...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible? |
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:41:49PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > let ( /\ ) (a1, a2) (b1, b2) = a2 > b1 || b2 > a1 > > I've just reread the Lexical conventions section in the manual. For > some reason when I read it first I thought it said that '\' was > allowed, but in fact it's not so this appears to be a bug in camlp4. > > BUT can we permit this? It's nice to be able to define /\ and \/ > operators with the obvious meanings :-) > > In fact can we open the discussion about converting OCaml source files > into UTF-8 and allow _lots_ more symbols? eg: > > let (∪) = ... > let (⊆) = ... Did this come up at the OCaml meeting [1]? I think Xavier Leroy said something about updating OCaml to allow UTF-x source files, though I have only read the transcripts and don't know the full context or how official this is. Hez [1] - http://wiki.cocan.org/events/europe/ocamlmeetingparis2008 -- Hezekiah M. Carty Graduate Research Assistant University of Maryland Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science