From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Reason why 'for' doesn't work across floats?
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:47:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040108154759.GA22093@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040108150358.GA6893@roke.freak>
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:03:58PM +0100, Michal Moskal wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps 'a -> 'a -> 'a ?
Is this much different from the generic-but-not-really < operator in
OCaml?
Rich.
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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
2004-01-08 15:47 ` Jacques Carette
2004-01-08 15:47 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2004-01-08 16:15 ` Artem Prisyznuk
2004-01-09 7:36 ` Florian Hars
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