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authorDaniil Baturin <daniil@baturin.org>2014-09-11 21:40:15 +0700
committerDaniil Baturin <daniil@baturin.org>2014-09-11 21:40:15 +0700
commit15fd51c9984fcadcfa83658ae0f01e4b3402c07f (patch)
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Minor style notes in the OCaml tutorial.
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(* Expressions can be separated by a double semicolon symbol, ";;".
In many cases it's redundant, but in this tutorial we use it after
- every expression for easy pasting into the interpreter shell. *)
+ every expression for easy pasting into the interpreter shell.
+ Unnecessary use of expression separators in source code files
+ is often considered to be a bad style. *)
(* Variable and function declarations use "let" keyword. *)
let x = 10 ;;
+(* OCaml allows single quote characters in identifiers.
+ Single quote doesn't have a special meaning in this case, it's often used
+ in cases when in other languages one would use names like "foo_tmp". *)
+let foo = 1 ;;
+let foo' = foo * 2 ;;
+
(* Since OCaml compiler infers types automatically, you normally don't need to
specify argument types explicitly. However, you can do it if you want or need to. *)
let inc_int (x: int) = x + 1 ;;