From: tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez)
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:00:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070116090002.GA14494@snarc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1168910291.9207.62.camel@rosella.wigram>
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:18:11PM +1100, skaller wrote:
> I don't miss any of those things .. the point being they're
> not so 'common' as you might think.
It's totally common to to do some action despite that an exception has
been raised or not to cleanup stuff (like file descriptor is the obvious
example).
At the moment in OCaml you need to multiple layer or try/with to be able
to express this. it would be much nicer to allow this construction as a
proper idiom, not ad-hoc.
> I'm a Python programmer too, and I never use 'finally' ..
> I've never found any use for it.
You probably don't write/read much python code then.
( I found 2 use of finally in felix's python code )
> Felix has return statement .. but then Felix has *statements*:
> executable Ocaml is all expressions, so a return statement would
> seem out of place.
OCaml is a functional language, however it also contains imperative feature.
It doesn't seems so inappropriate to have a return statement, as long
it's not abused.
--
Vincent Hanquez
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-16 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-13 5:37 Edgar Friendly
2007-01-13 5:56 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-01-14 17:35 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 17:59 ` ketty
2007-01-14 18:21 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:29 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-13 7:41 ` David Baelde
2007-01-13 9:31 ` ketty
2007-01-14 17:33 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:23 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-14 18:41 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-14 20:49 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-14 23:38 ` Gabriel Kerneis
2007-01-15 0:55 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15 6:12 ` skaller
2007-01-15 0:05 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 5:59 ` skaller
2007-01-15 20:23 ` Martin Jambon
2007-01-15 21:30 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15 22:13 ` Try finally (was Re: [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features) Daniel Bünzli
2007-01-15 22:27 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 22:40 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-01-15 23:08 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 22:17 ` [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 1:18 ` skaller
2007-01-16 2:11 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16 5:18 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 6:36 ` skaller
2007-01-16 6:33 ` skaller
2007-01-16 13:55 ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-16 9:00 ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
2007-01-16 14:14 ` skaller
2007-01-16 15:00 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 17:47 ` skaller
2007-01-16 19:24 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-17 3:28 ` skaller
2007-01-17 11:41 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-17 12:53 ` Olivier Andrieu
2007-01-17 13:18 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-17 14:09 ` skaller
2007-01-16 19:42 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16 21:15 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-17 3:46 ` skaller
2007-01-17 11:50 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-15 5:56 ` skaller
2007-01-15 9:35 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-01-15 18:28 ` Martin Jambon
2007-01-15 19:02 ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-01-14 19:01 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-14 18:51 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-14 20:49 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-15 0:19 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-20 19:19 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-20 21:40 ` skaller
2007-01-14 21:47 ` Tom
2007-01-15 10:36 ` Richard Jones
2007-01-15 14:24 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-16 8:45 ` Hendrik Tews
2007-01-16 9:08 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-01-21 17:07 ` [Caml-list] native-code stack backtraces (was: Ocaml compiler features) Xavier Leroy
2007-01-21 18:53 ` Pierre Etchemaïté
2007-01-16 5:21 ` [Caml-list] Ocaml compiler features Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 5:33 ` ketty
2007-01-16 6:00 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 6:10 ` ketty
2007-01-16 5:55 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-16 17:51 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 19:09 ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-16 19:21 ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-16 20:06 ` Jonathan Roewen
2007-01-16 20:13 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-16 6:51 ` skaller
2007-01-16 18:01 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-17 2:23 ` skaller
2007-01-16 8:00 ` Florian Hars
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