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by oct 9y ago
OCaml actually has correct block comments by his definition (and no line comments). This does lead to the odd fact that you can't have an unterminated string literal in a comment, which usually isn't a problem, but can be surprisi
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by oct 10y ago
I think you're thinking of `true`.
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by oct 11y ago
OCaml's parsing rules are pretty opaque sometimes. For example, if you have an "if" statement that's just performing effects (not returning a value), you may run into behavior like this: # let x = ref 0;; val x
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by oct 12y ago
The causal ordering defined in the paper is stronger than that. It says that if process P performs event A and later sends a message to process Q, then any event that occurs in Q after Q receives the message causally follows A. I don&#x27
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by oct 15y ago
Just because Haskell is purer that doesn't mean ML is pointless. Under the right circumstances even a functional program can benefit from mutable state. One example (perhaps the only real example; I don't know) can be found in the SML New
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by oct 16y ago
I am pretty sure the Carnegie Mellon remark was just saying that a CMU CS graduate would have learned this already. Which is true, since the blog author (Bob Harper) teaches a course there which covers this very topic!
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by oct 16y ago
Is there precedent for this? I can recall stories about getting cut off from a service if modding is detected but not about this sort of thing.
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by oct 16y ago
I thought for a while that the word being used was "bellicose," like they were being confrontational by bulging out.
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by oct 16y ago
Here is a recent HN discussion of the same article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448424
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by oct 16y ago
Apostol's Calculus would probably fit your needs. I do not remember its discussing applications at all, unlike the Salas and Hille book according to online descriptions of it. From what you wrote it does not look like you are concerned wi
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by oct 16y ago
This is a good description of my position as well. Unfortunately it seems like this is something that does not get taught at schools much, and I will admit to having been trying to learn everything from school when I should be doing more i