From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: mod_caml 1.0.6 - includes security patch
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:37:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120193756.GA25813@davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040120185445.GA26921@roke.freak>
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:54:45PM +0100, Michal Moskal wrote:
> > > Now, the reader of the code might take false impression that f() is
> > > executed before g(). Of course there is no such danger with function
> > > definitions in where blocks, but still I think readability is the reason
> > > it is absent from ocaml.
The where clause works well for Haskell, because there are no order of
evaluation issues. Because of side-effects, the where clause in ocaml
would usually just end up being confusing. Think of a multi-page
expression with a where clause at the end. Not that this is good code,
but it would sure be easy to miss. It would probably cause the same
kinds of problems that C's 'break' causes in switch statements.
Dave Brown
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 14:03 Richard Jones
[not found] ` <4006AC01.F2AD2741@decis.be>
2004-01-15 15:42 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-15 16:19 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-15 16:53 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-16 6:15 ` james woodyatt
2004-01-16 9:34 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-16 19:05 ` Brian Hurt
2004-01-16 18:52 ` Yutaka OIWA
2004-01-16 19:20 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-16 19:01 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-19 10:13 ` Luc Maranget
2004-01-19 11:36 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-19 14:43 ` Luc Maranget
2004-01-19 16:10 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-19 17:46 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-19 18:05 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-19 21:45 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-20 11:31 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-20 12:30 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 14:01 ` skaller
2004-01-20 17:34 ` Michal Moskal
2004-01-20 17:52 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-20 18:54 ` Michal Moskal
2004-01-20 19:21 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-20 19:37 ` David Brown [this message]
2004-01-20 20:38 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 19:07 ` Max Kirillov
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.53.0401211150520.10508@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
2004-01-22 2:15 ` Max Kirillov
2004-01-20 23:00 ` Brian Hurt
2004-01-20 23:48 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 0:34 ` David Brown
2004-01-21 2:32 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 2:34 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-01-21 2:34 ` Shawn Wagner
2004-01-21 9:43 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-01-21 5:16 ` Brian Hurt
2004-01-19 21:59 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-01-19 18:18 ` David Brown
2004-01-19 19:15 ` Markus Mottl
2004-01-19 19:19 ` David Brown
[not found] ` <20040119185746.A12690@beaune.inria.fr>
2004-01-19 18:07 ` Richard Jones
2004-01-20 1:29 ` skaller
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