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From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New to OCaml: can someone explain how this code can be done better?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:40:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010625204007.A7057@cs.unibo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B34F067.CD965358@cmu.edu>

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 03:39:19PM -0400, Eric C. Cooper wrote:
>    characters.  As you'll see, the only imperative code is in this
>    conversion step; the rest is purely functional.
:-((

let rec explode_string = function
   "" -> []
 | s -> (String.get s 0) :: explode_string (String.sub s 1 (String.length s - 1))
;;
let rec implode_string = function
   [] -> ""
 | h::t -> (String.make 1 h) ^ implode_string t
;;

Sorry, I can't resist :-)

Cheers.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-25 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-23  5:27 Jeremy Fincher
2001-06-23 19:39 ` Eric C. Cooper
2001-06-25 18:40   ` Stefano Zacchiroli [this message]
2001-06-24  5:49 Jeremy Fincher
2001-06-24  6:03 Jeremy Fincher

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