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> - clean (nice syntax ...) Just looked at wikipedia examples and the code is full of special chars and shortened keywords. Doesn't look nice or simple to me,
by Double_a_92 9y ago
> - clean (nice syntax ...)
Just looked at wikipedia examples and the code is full of special chars and shortened keywords. Doesn't look nice or simple to me, tbh.
- masklinn 9y agoI guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though your eye seems questionable, the only "shortened keywords" I can find in the wikipedia page are "rec" (which is a long-standing shortening of "recursive" in recursive lets) and "fun" (for functions).
- hajile 9y agoSML is what Ocaml should have been. With a few small syntactic changes (mostly to add some nice-to-have features), SML syntax would be better in every way instead of almost every way.
- TheAceOfHearts 9y agoAs another commenter mentioned, you might want to try out Reason [0]. It's a new-ish programming language from Facebook that uses OCaml as its backend. [0] https://reasonml.github.io https://reasonml.github.io