"ocaml_beginners"::[] Stupid pronounciation question

I'm generally horrible with pronounciation and learning things from books and the web doesn't help much. I was reading an article about sum types on everything2:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1099453

It had the statement "Where 'a (pronounced "alpha") is any type, kindof like a wildcard type."; Is that really the way you would read code out loud? Like "type alpha cons equals" for "type 'a cons ="?

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:12:55 -0500 (CDT), olsongt wrote

> It had the statement "Where 'a (pronounced "alpha") is any type,
> kindof like a wildcard type."; Is that really the way you would read
> code out loud? Like "type alpha cons equals" for "type 'a cons ="?

I do. But I wouldn't find it odd or distracting if someone else didn't.

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William D. Neumann

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