[Caml-list] where is my count: newbie's question

[Francois Thomasset <Francois.Thomasset@inria.fr>]

Sorry if this is a naive question, but I can't make out the reason of the 
behavior of the following function, which is a (seemingly!) slighty 
modification of the gensym example:
# let fnx(x) = let count = ref 0 in         
  let f() =                                 
  Printf.printf "x = %d\n" x;
  Printf.printf "count = %d\n" !count;
  count := !count + 1; !count
  in f;;
val fnx : int -> unit -> int = <fun>
I would have expected that count remembers its previous value, which would be 
incremented at each call, but this is not true : !count is always 0.
Of course if I remove the int argument I retrieve the behavior I expected:
# let fnx = let count = ref 0 in
  let f() =
  Printf.printf "count = %d\n" !count;
  count := !count + 1; !count
  in f;;
val fnx : unit -> int = <fun>
# fnx();;
count = 0
- : int = 1
# fnx();;
count = 1
- : int = 2



					François Thomasset.
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