miniblog.

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.

An excellent talk exploring different Lisp editors and the designs they explored: https://youtu.be/K0Tsa3smr1w (There's an impressive moment around 6:00 when the speaker says "there aren't any surviving copies of this tool [Lispedit], so I built this demo after reading the manual"!)

OH agile philosophy: "postpone decision making until the last responsible moment"