RE: [Caml-list] Concatenation of static strings?

["David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>]

I don't know whether the compiler optimises the concatenation (it ought to,
just as constant integer arithmetic ought to be evaluated by the compiler),
but how about writing:

    let print_usage () =
        print_endline "\n\
                       Usage : progname [options]\n\
                      \        progname [options] <config file>"

Which is less typing. I use this for long SQL statements in code, as well.
Note that you must escape the first space on the line if you want any spaces
after it to count (the lexer semantics for \CR or \LF ignore whitespace at
the start of the next line).


David 

-----Original Message-----
From: caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr
[mailto:caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Erik de Castro Lopo
Sent: 19 January 2008 03:33
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] Concatenation of static strings?

Hi all,

I find myself doing things like the following:

    let print_usage () =
        print_endline
	(	"\n" ^
		"Usage : progname [options]\n" ^
		"        progname [options] <config file>\n"
		)

and wondering, when those strings are concatenated. Is that done
at compile time?

Cheers,
Erik
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