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From: David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
To: Arthur Chan <baguasquirrel@gmail.com>
Cc: Till Crueger <crueger@informatik.uni-bonn.de>,
	Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>, Caml <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:41:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209318068.6128.10.camel@Blefuscu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74cabd9e0804261432o116f4db5w2f5777496da17d94@mail.gmail.com>

We can do that in OCaml, actually. I've seen at least three versions of
this in the Net, one of them by me. Plus it also works with streams,
arrays, etc.

Cheers,
 David
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:32 -0700, Arthur Chan wrote:
> The python syntax goes further than just the "in" bit, in fact.  They
> can do list comprehensions like [for x in blah if f(x)].  Now every
> functional guru will recognize this immediately as the bastardization
> of List.filter.  While it'd be nice to have that, I come across
> List.filter much less than List.exists/mem.
> 
> Whatever....  it's just a minor quibble, but this thread was about
> syntax extensions, after all.

-- 
David Teller
 Security of Distributed Systems
  http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller
 Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations. 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-27 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-24 15:49 David Teller
2008-04-24 15:52 ` [Caml-list] " John Whitington
2008-04-25  8:22   ` Richard Jones
2008-05-01  7:45     ` Richard Jones
2008-04-24 16:16 ` [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ? - voting Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-04-25 15:15   ` David Teller
2008-04-26  0:16     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-04-24 16:41 ` [Caml-list] [OSR] Standard syntax extensions ? Martin Jambon
2008-04-24 17:02   ` Jon Harrop
2008-04-24 20:53     ` Berke Durak
2008-04-25  8:24       ` Richard Jones
2008-04-25 16:59         ` Berke Durak
2008-04-25 17:31           ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-04-25 17:38           ` Richard Jones
2008-04-25 10:33       ` Andrej Bauer
2008-04-25 15:32     ` David Teller
2008-04-24 17:05 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-04-25 13:57   ` Peng Zang
2008-04-25 15:04     ` David Teller
2008-04-25 16:11       ` Peng Zang
2008-04-25 20:37 ` Arthur Chan
2008-04-26  7:41   ` Richard Jones
2008-04-26  7:53     ` Till Crueger
2008-04-26 21:32       ` Arthur Chan
2008-04-27  6:58         ` Andrej Bauer
2008-04-27 14:14           ` Christopher L Conway
2008-04-27 17:41         ` David Teller [this message]
2008-04-27 17:44       ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-04-25 22:25 ` Mike Lin

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