On: What can OCaml do that you can't do in other programming languages?

[PieSquared]

(format nil "I have~{ ~(~A~)~#[~;, and~:;,~]~}." '(red green blue black white yellow))

[begemot → PieSquared]

    a = ["red", "green", "blue", "black", "white", "yellow"]; "I have %s and %s" % (", ".join(a[:-1]), a[-1])

Well almost...

[gruseom → PieSquared]

That's sort of cheating, since you dropped out of CL into the format mini-language.

[PieSquared → gruseom]

You're right of course. I was also considering showing off the loop macro. That one actually wouldn't have been cheating, since it shows off macros (A pretty nifty and central feature of Lisp)

  (loop for x from 1 to 10
        as x-sqr = (* x x)
        collect x-sqr)

Or something like that.