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		ufo on May 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reason: A new interface to OCaml For me the odd bit is that they called the constructor List instead of Cons.

jordwalke on May 18, 2016 [–]

Thanks for the feedback. We can change it to `Cons`, but I was assuming that anyone who knew what `Cons` was, would know what `List` meant, but not everyone who understood what `List` meant, would know/recall what `Cons` meant.

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