It's easy to be lulled into thinking this is a kind of imperative construction. *But it's not!* It's really just a shorthand for the compound "let"-expressions we've already been looking at, taking the maximum syntactically permissible scope. (Compare the "dot" convention in the lambda calculus, discussed above.)
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9. Some shorthand
OCaml permits you to abbreviate:
and there's no more mutation going on there than there is in:
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<code>∀x. (F x or ∀x (not (F x)))</code>
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