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bschwindHN
on May 18, 2017
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My guess is it came from Scala? In practice it's not very tough to get it right.
throwaway7645
on May 18, 2017
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Val might have originally been OCaml or Haskell.
mahmud
on May 18, 2017
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Standard ML, rather.
It might have appeared in earlier MLs as an extension.
throwaway7645
on May 20, 2017
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And I was soooo close :)
bschwindHN
on May 19, 2017
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I mean the combination of val (immutable) and var (mutable) as keywords to declare bindings. OCaml uses let and so does Haskell, right?
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