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From: "Eric Jaeger" <eric.jaeger@ssi.gouv.fr>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Function returning recursive lists
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:13:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006701cddd21$7e4235a0$7ac6a0e0$@jaeger@ssi.gouv.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG3nF7XbzhxBniyswXE9nrbf9=yOXBum-3WD0a-dyy_EWC2oEw@mail.gmail.com>

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Thanks all for your answers. The consensus seems to be that it is not
possible to define an OCaml function returning recursive lists (or more
generally recursive values), unless using various forms of tricks such as
lazyness or Obj. So on the one hand we have OCaml functions as results of
computations which are not analyzable, and on the other hand recursive
(immutable) values which are analyzable but can only be defined instead of
being computed.

 

I would not request any form of "improvement" in this area (as far as I'm
concerned, I'm not comfortable with such recursive values); this was pure
curiosity.

 

  Regards, Eric

 


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-18 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <50d02b65.6c4cb40a.66ab.4256SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2012-12-18 11:21 ` Julien Blond
2012-12-18 13:13   ` Eric Jaeger [this message]
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2012-12-19 16:45     ` Lukasz Stafiniak
     [not found] <50d02b62.827bc20a.6f6e.65b8SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2012-12-19 22:23 ` Philippe Wang
2012-12-19 23:50   ` Jeremy Yallop
2012-12-20 15:24     ` Ashish Agarwal
     [not found] <50d02b72.7155c20a.1dbf.4e2fSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2012-12-18  9:35 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-12-18  8:37 Eric Jaeger
2012-12-21 19:55 ` Peter Frey
2012-12-22 18:10   ` Philippe Wang
     [not found]   ` <50D59147.3000201@ssi.gouv.fr>
2012-12-28  1:41     ` Peter Frey
2012-12-28  9:37       ` Arkady Andrukonis
2012-12-28 12:21         ` Philippe Wang
2012-12-28 12:30       ` Philippe Wang
2012-12-28 15:22         ` Didier Cassirame
2013-01-04  0:45           ` Francois Berenger

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