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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 year ago

rudt has implicit typing by default for variables tho...?

[-] FishFace@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it doesn't cross function boundaries so it's more limited.

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

In other words, in OCaml, you don't have to write type annotations into the function parameter list. It will infer even those.

It's useful for small ad-hoc functions, but personally, I'm glad that Rust is more explicit here.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah structs, consts ets should always be explicit, prevents a lot oh headache
also, for adhoc stuff rust has closures which can be fully inferred (but you need to convert them to explicit function pointers for storage in structs/consts)

[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not like it's more limited, it's just so that it can yell at you when you return not what you said you're going to, IMO

[-] FishFace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

OCaml allows you to specify return types, but doesn't force you to.

[-] Prunebutt@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

Why am I laughing? I don't know any of these languages?

[-] meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe 11 points 1 year ago

Feel like this joke would work better with TS | JS. Since that's the point of the former. I don't know how rust and ocaml are related?

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

The initial creator of Rust, Graydon Hoare, took lots of inspiration from OCaml. In fact, the first Rust compiler was written in OCaml.

I appreciate that fun fact. The meme now makes more sense.

[-] charje@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

JS doesn't do any type inference. Ocaml Connor l type checker knows all the types and is completely type safe without type annotations.

[-] Magister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I remember learning Caml in (French) university in 1996, it was brand new and from INRIA guys, I understood about nothing about it :)

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

OCaml stronk... it's an amazing language that more people should be familiar with!

this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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