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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Help me find this pdf
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:27:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710192327.07344.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff9e5f$q24$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Friday 19 October 2007 06:09:02 Bárður Árantsson wrote:
> What you're saying is basically that lazy pattern matching should only
> force as much of the value under examination as is actually necessary to
> decide if there's a match. Do I have that right?

Exactly right, yes.

> If so, then Haskell does exactly this.

Yes.

> You're definitely right that doing anything of this sort is currently
> quite painful in OCaml.

Indeed.

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-19 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18  9:52 Tom
2007-10-18 10:33 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-10-18 11:01   ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-10-18 12:25 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-18 12:40   ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-10-18 13:17     ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-18 15:15       ` Till Varoquaux
2007-10-18 12:46   ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-10-18 13:57     ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-18 14:22       ` Brian Hurt
2007-10-18 14:52         ` Robert Fischer
2007-10-18 15:04           ` Eric Cooper
2007-10-18 17:18         ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-19  1:16           ` skaller
2007-10-19  5:09           ` Bárður Árantsson
2007-10-19  5:23             ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-10-19  5:46               ` Bárður Árantsson
2007-10-19 12:25               ` [Caml-list] " Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-19 12:47                 ` Luc Maranget
2007-10-20 14:26                   ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-19 14:48                 ` Robert Fischer
2007-10-19 21:43                   ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-10-19 21:51                     ` Robert Fischer
2007-10-20 13:10                       ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-10-19 23:10                     ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-20  1:13                       ` skaller
2007-10-20  6:36                         ` Tom
2007-10-21 11:17                           ` skaller
2007-10-19  8:55             ` Zheng Li
2007-10-19 22:27             ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-10-19 13:00           ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2007-10-19 13:49             ` Loup Vaillant
2007-10-19 14:41               ` Zheng Li
2007-10-19 23:09             ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-10-18 20:07   ` Tom
2007-10-19  0:59     ` skaller
2007-10-18 20:48 ` Lauri Alanko

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