Re: Expression-local variables and 'let'

> However, although 'var' is fine in this 
> context, 'let' seems very awkward: 
>   using (let s = new PrintStream(...)) { ... }

(As a native English speaker) it's not a big deal to see this in
program text.

My guess is that most-of-the-people most-of-the-time will use var, even
when they don't need var. When we wan't something to *not be* var it's
good that the keyword is very different from var. (A single letter
difference is just an invitation to make a slip.)



> It was also argued that 'val' has a more straightforward meaning that
> 'let', especially to non-native speakers, while 'let' might remind 
> people about BASIC, can you imagine that !?!  ;-)

Wasn't OCaml inspired by BASIC! ;-)

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