On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:54:36AM +0100, David Allsopp wrote:
> Suppose I have this piece of code:
> 
> let foo xs =
>   match xs with
>     x::xs -> if x
>              then xs (* Return the tail of the list *)
>              else xs (* Return the entire list *)
>   | []    -> raise Exit

I'd find it very counter-intuitive if OCaml behaved like this, and
annoying if it gave a warning.  Just name the variables to be
different!

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat