Invisible wrote:
>   integer * string
> which seems a rather perverse choice. 

Cartesian product of integers and strings.  I'm not sure what a "sum type" 
would be.

> instead of "(True, 5)"? It would be clearer...)

Wait till you get to python, where the tuple constructor is actually the 
comma, the parens are optional, and you try to figure out how to write a 
one-element tuple literal, or the empty tuple.

> Haskell makes the rather illogical choice of using "--" as the start 
> marker for a comment. 

Common in a lot of other languages like SQL and Ada. FWIW.

> Ocaml uses the even stranger choice of "(* ... *)". 

Which is Pascal for comments, if your keyboard (punched cards) don't have 
curly braces. FWIW.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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