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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
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 22:10:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710022210.15441.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2d02be30710021349m78417caakb3d1afd0714f1ebe@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 21:49:41 kirillkh wrote:
> A little weird to see such inherently functional construct as fold
> implemented imperatively.

On the contrary, this is the core functionality of ML that makes it so 
practically useful: combining functional and imperative programming neatly 
and efficiently.

Look at the Array and Hashtbl modules of the stdlib for more examples of code 
that is both imperative and functional.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-01 21:27 YC
2007-10-01 21:55 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-01 22:29   ` YC
2007-10-01 21:55 ` Olivier Roussel
2007-10-02 12:39   ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-10-02 12:56     ` Brian Hurt
2007-10-02 16:15       ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 17:10         ` verlyck, Bruno.Verlyck
2007-10-02 18:02         ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 19:35           ` skaller
2007-10-02 21:05             ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 21:07               ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-02 20:23           ` Olivier Andrieu
2007-10-02 20:49             ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 21:10               ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-10-02 21:15               ` David Allsopp
2007-10-02 22:23                 ` skaller

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