Re: [Caml-list] recursion/iterator question

[Christian Stork <cstork@ics.uci.edu>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:58:25AM -0700, Christian Stork wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:07:47PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > On Monday 17 April 2006 10:36, Christian Stork wrote:
> > > Or, if you choose to represent triplets as lists of three elements, you can
> > > generalize Jon's solution to

> > >   let rec combs = function

> > >       | (0, _) -> [[]]
> > >       | (n, es) when n > List.length es -> []
> > >       | (n, e::es) -> List.map (fun l -> e::l) (combs (n-1, es)) @ combs
> > >       | (n, es)

> > >   let triplets es = combs (3, es)

> > > Question to the rest of the list:  The ocaml compiler complains with
> > >   ...
> > >   Warning P: this pattern-matching is not exhaustive.
> > >   Here is an example of a value that is not matched:
> > >   (1, [])
> > >   (However, some guarded clause may match this value.)
> > >   ...

> > > Am I right to assume there's no way to get rid of this warning short of
> > > disabling P-warnings on the command line?  (I can't list all the lacking
> > > patterns since they depend on n, right?)

> > The lacking patterns are covered by (_, []), so you probably want:

> >   | 0, _ | _, [] -> [[]]

Oh, I think you meant 
    
    | 0, _  -> [[]]
    | _, [] -> []

and that does indeed work (tho it's less efficient).

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