Re: why is 4 the outcome ?

"Roelof Wobben [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]>
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This exercise is from that book.

Roelof

Amir Chaudhry [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] schreef op
15-10-2014 18:13:

In case it hasn't been mentioned before, I'd recommend
a book called 'OCaml from the very beginning'. The
exercises there are very useful and I found the
explanations/answers to be clear.

http://ocaml-book.com/

Best wishes,

Amir

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On 15 Oct 2014, at 13:34, Roelof Wobben [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] <[email protected] >
wrote:

Thanks .

Now I understand where I did go wrong.

Roelof

John Whitington [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] schreef op

15-10-2014 14:32:

Hi,

You're using this syntax
twice, nested:

let <name> =
<expression> in <another expression>

which binds the
<name> (e.g x, to the value of the
<expression> e.g 1)

in <another
expression>.

In your example, we can
insert some parentheses, without changing the

meaning of the expression.
Can you see what's happening now?

let x = 1 in (let x
= 2 in x + x)

--> let x = 1 in 4

--> 4

Thanks,

John

Roelof Wobben [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] wrote:

oke,

I thought I had to read
it as follows

let x = 1 the first x
in x + x is a 1

let x = 2 so the second
x in x + x is a 2 so it will be 1 + 2 = 3

Roelof

Lukasz Stafiniak [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] schreef op

15-10-2014 14:21:

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014
at 2:17 PM, Roelof Wobben [email protected]

< mailto:[email protected] >
[ocaml_beginners]

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< mailto:[email protected] >>
wrote:

Hello,

I have this
programm :

let x = 1 in let
x = 2 in x + x

I was expected to
see a outcome of 3 but when I run it I see a

outcome

of 4 ,

Can someone
explain to me why ??

If x is an integer,
then x + x = 2 * x is an even number. 3 is not
an

even number so it
cannot be equal to x + x for any x. Since x = 2,

therefore x + x = 2 +
2 = 4.

Regards.

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