[giraffe_lady]

Right but why do they use "of" in that way for type declarations? Ends up being the same answer: it's a reasonable translation from french for a non-native english speaker.

[wk_end]

...except that the original ML uses the same syntax, and it's Scottish.

[giraffe_lady]

Oh interesting, nevermind then. This makes me question the french explanation for the other thing too.

[c54]

It's fairly colloquial english to say you have "some of something", I think this matches the ocaml language convention pretty nicely