From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA11713; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:14:55 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA11884 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:14:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3AAFmjq016565 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:15:49 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp116-94.lns1.syd2.internode.on.net [150.101.116.94]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3AAElvM030138; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:44:48 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] String.map => Question to the OCaml-team From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: <200404091328.53282.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> References: <20040409110138.GA1333@first.in-berlin.de> <200404091328.53282.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1081592086.20677.256.camel@pelican> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 10 Apr 2004 20:14:46 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml-team:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 2004:99 oliver:01 bandel:01 val:01 char:01 char:01 val:01 ironically:01 9660:01 glebe:01 nsw:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 228 On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 22:28, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2004 12:01 pm, Oliver Bandel wrote: > > it's nice to have a String.iter, but more functional would > > be to have a String.map function. > > Would that be: > > val map : (char -> char) -> string -> string > > or > > val map : (char -> 'a) -> string -> 'a list > > ? > > But yes, ironically, now that I return to coding I need exactly this function > (the latter, actually). :) And I need: val map: (char -> string) -> string -> string which is by far the most common need. An example is: map to_UTF8 latin1_string -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners