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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0DDBC69 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:19:56 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAMxRAkfUnw7Xnmdsb2JhbACCN4t/AQEBAQcEBg8Y X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,221,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="2290540" Received: from fhw-relay07.plus.net ([212.159.14.215]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 Oct 2007 23:19:56 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by fhw-relay07.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Icp9n-0001Cp-IM for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:19:55 +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 22:10:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <779bf2730710011427g5983da4cw6ad8b715a9e38771@mail.gmail.com> <95513600710021323u762efd5k5ee6bdd03d7cc37@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710022210.15441.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; inherently:01 hashtbl:01 stdlib:01 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 imperative:01 imperative:01 modules:02 implemented:02 functional:02 functional:02 construct:02 programming:03 fold:06 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