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From: Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Reason why 'for' doesn't work across floats?
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:03:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040108150358.GA6893@roke.freak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040108141152.GA19714@redhat.com>

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:11:52PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> Is there a particular reason why I shouldn't be allowed to step over
> floats?
> 
> # for r = 0. to 9. step 1. do printf "%f" r done;;
>           --
> This expression has type float but is here used with type int

let f a b = for x = a to b do () done

What type would f have (int -> int -> int or float -> float -> float)?
One would need "for.", which doesn't seem appealing.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-08 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-08 14:11 Richard Jones
2004-01-08 15:03 ` Michal Moskal [this message]
2004-01-08 15:47   ` Jacques Carette
2004-01-08 15:47   ` Richard Jones
2004-01-08 16:15     ` Artem Prisyznuk
2004-01-09  7:36     ` Florian Hars

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