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Jul 5, 2018 at 11:16
TIL OCaml has .mli files which are much like .h files in C: they define (and enforce) a public interface. This seems to be less popular in newer languages: we tend to prefer public/private annotations in a single file. I'm not sure why this changed.

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I really like pattern matching in Rust, but I find myself using it less and less. `if let` and `let ... else` require substantially less indentation, and I often use them for Option values. I don't miss this syntactic sugar in OCaml though. Maybe it's just because OCaml has a 2 space indent, unlike Rust's 4 space indent?