From: Michael Leary <leary@nwlink.com>
To: Jon Moore <jonm@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] flushing stdout with flush stdout not good?
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:55:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010904105556.B20346@ip178.usw22.rb1.bel.nwlink.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109040253.f842ruW10866@codex.cis.upenn.edu>; from jonm@dsl.cis.upenn.edu on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:53:56PM -0400
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:53:56PM -0400, Jon Moore wrote:
> In the code you wrote above, "fso" gets bound to () (and not to a function)
> after flushing stdout once. So the name and color functions you wrote are
> doing prints, and returning units, rather than invoking the flush as you
> thought. Thus, this is why the output becomes bursty (you're not actually
> flushing).
Heh, a pretty obvious mistake now that I look at it... If it's fully
applied it's only the return value, otherwise it's a partially applied
function/closure awaiting more args. All that lambda calculus stuff. :)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-04 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-03 19:27 Michael Leary
2001-09-03 20:02 ` Markus Mottl
2001-09-04 1:59 ` Michael Leary
2001-09-04 2:31 ` Michael Leary
2001-09-04 2:40 ` Alexander V. Voinov
2001-09-04 2:53 ` Jon Moore
2001-09-04 17:55 ` Michael Leary [this message]
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