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Jun 29, 2018 at 20:14
I'm learning OCaml at the moment, and I was caught out by the syntax today. This code (pictured) gives a type error saying that Sad is not a boolean. https://gist.github.com/Wilfred/ce4b7177f404a482b8fccc0044d15e4c This is the classic 'dangling else' syntax problem, but with match statements rather than if statements.
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