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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In other words, in OCaml, you don't have to write type annotations into the function parameter list. It will infer even those.

It's useful for small ad-hoc functions, but personally, I'm glad that Rust is more explicit here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah structs, consts ets should always be explicit, prevents a lot oh headache
also, for adhoc stuff rust has closures which can be fully inferred (but you need to convert them to explicit function pointers for storage)