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Re:Nim Programming Language v0.15.0 released by wisam on Saturday October 01, 2016 @11:48AM (#12618331)
I don't know about Rust; but in ML family, everything in top level is a binding. Whether it's a variable, function, type or structure.

SML is explicit about it and its syntax makes it clear what type of binding is going on.

val x = 5

fun f = fn x => x * x

datatype weekend = Sat | Sun

So while on top level not everything is an expression, everything on the RHS is an expression.

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Re:Nim Programming Language v0.15.0 released by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 01, 2016 @05:26PM (#12619960)
In rust, assignment isn't an expression, but everything else is.
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