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From: Judicaël Courant <Judicael.Courant@lri.fr>
To: Patrick M Doane <patrick@watson.org>
Cc: checker@d6.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] two unrelated questions
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:04:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010426080415.63b4affc.Judicael.Courant@lri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010425202832.44330B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:38:43 -0400 (EDT) Patrick M Doane wrote:
> 
> One way to think about exceptions is to treat them simply as control
flow
> expressions. For example, the 'break' statement is used in C/C++ to
> early-out of iteration constructs. This translates naturally to
> exceptions:
> 
>   exception Break
>   try
>     List.iter (fun ..  -> ...  raise Break) l
>   with Break -> ()
> 

Actually there is already such a predefined exception in the core library
of O'Caml. The doc says:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
exception Exit

     This exception is not raised by any library function. It is provided
for use in your programs. 
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Judicaël.
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-26  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-25 21:08 Chris Hecker
2001-04-26  0:38 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-26  6:04   ` Judicaël Courant [this message]
2001-04-26 12:06     ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-27  9:12       ` Anton Moscal
2001-04-29 22:24         ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-30 18:57           ` Fergus Henderson
2001-05-01  1:31           ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-05-01 12:45             ` [Caml-list] " Ken Friis Larsen
2001-04-27 15:09       ` [Caml-list] " Brian Rogoff
2001-04-27 17:49         ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-26  8:22   ` Andreas Rossberg
2001-04-26  1:13 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-04-26 13:47 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-26 22:34   ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-26 16:57 ` Mark Seaborn
2001-04-26 22:20   ` John Max Skaller
2001-05-01 21:08     ` Brian Rogoff
2001-05-01 23:30       ` John Max Skaller
2001-05-02  0:03       ` John Max Skaller
2001-05-01 17:25 Dave Berry

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