Wilfred Hughes on Nostr: I still find it weird that constructors aren't first class functions in OCaml. `id ...
I still find it weird that constructors aren't first class functions in OCaml.
`id Just` is legal in Haskell, but `id Some` is an error in OCaml.
Are there any advantages of the OCaml approach?
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