Re: [Caml-list] Strange performances

[Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>]

On Friday 18 January 2008 16:55:14 Benjamin Canou wrote:
> This code works perfectly :
>
> let list_of_string s =
>   let rec list_of_string s i =
>     try let e = s.[i] in e :: list_of_string s (succ i)
>     with Invalid_argument "index out of bounds" -> []
>   in list_of_string s 0

As an aside, I would recommend using an imperative style with mutable data 
structures like "string" are involved:

  let list_of_string string =
    let list = ref [] in
    for i = String.length string - 1 downto 0 do
      list := string.[i] :: !list
    done;
    !list;;

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