From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8341BC69 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:17:38 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAMxRAkfUnw6Elmdsb2JhbACCN4t/AQEBAQcEBg8RBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,221,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3671127" Received: from pih-relay05.plus.net ([212.159.14.132]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 Oct 2007 23:17:38 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay05.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Icp7Z-0002uC-F0 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:17:37 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] best and fastest way to read lines from a file? Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:07:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <779bf2730710011427g5983da4cw6ad8b715a9e38771@mail.gmail.com> <1191353751.6668.47.camel@rosella.wigram> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710022207.56972.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 exn:01 frog:98 polymorphic:01 wrote:01 signatures:01 caml-list:01 exceptions:01 undefined:01 constraint:01 parameters:03 parameters:03 function:08 suppose:09 file:11 On Tuesday 02 October 2007 22:05:07 kirillkh wrote: > Is it a deficiency in the language? A constraint of the type system by design. > I suppose OCaml could support > polymorphic exceptions, if they were checked, like in Java, and appeared in > function signatures in a similar way to parameters and return values. The exn type would need an undefined number of type parameters. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e