Re: [Caml-list] Again on pattern matching and strings

[Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:10:15AM +0200, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> Eh, no! This is really unacceptable as a general solution. 
> Of course, I could have coded my function this way, but this 
> technique is not scalable, especially from the perspective 
> of computational efficiency. Your code is compiled as a 

Yes, but your mail, expecially the part I quoted, complained about
elegancy of the code, not about efficiency.

> >Anyway from a more general point of view I'm also interested in seeing
> >"aliasing" or constant definition in the compiler, it is of general
> >interest, not only in pattern matching.
> 
> To my great surprise, I'm unable to think of an example 
> relating to anything other than pattern matching.

For example: the classic magic numbers problem used in almost all
programs, for example a global variable "debug" which can be safely a
constant (or an alias as you called it) instead of a global "let val".

Cheers.

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