> This is very consistently my biggest problem with OCaml: it just doesn't follow conventions set in other ecosystems. Well, the reason is that Caml predates t

> This is very consistently my biggest problem with OCaml: it just doesn't follow conventions set in other ecosystems. Well, the reason is that Caml predates those ecosystems; the original Caml was released nearly a decade before Java [1], and ML itself dates back to the 1970s. [1] http://caml.inria.fr/about/history.en.html http://caml.inria.fr/about/history.en.html