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Andrey Frolov
Andrey Frolov

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Variables

#ocaml #newbie #howto #tutorial

It's an expression and ;; says to ocaml treats this line as expression

3 + 4 ;;
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And heres variable declaration or let binding

let x = 3 + 4 ;;
(** val x : int = 7 *)
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After a new variable is created, the toplevel tells us the name of the variable (x), in addition to its type (int) and value (7).

Also with let you can define a function

let square x = x * x ;;

(** val square : int -> int = <fun> *)

square (square 2) ;;

(** - : int = 16 *)
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Function in ocaml is a first class citizen.

Note: ;; is required only in repl, not in your source code.

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Yawar Amin •

;; says to ocaml treats this line as expression

Note that ;; is only needed in the REPL to tell it that the line is finished, not in source code.

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Andrey Frolov •

Yeah, my bad. I'll fix it now. Thanks for your feedback