Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity

[Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>]

> Break simulated by continuation passing (I think that's
> what this is -- it looks like a call/cc to me, anyway)

Sort of, except that the continuation can't be used outside the 
function called by escape.  Here's a different approach (this is 
essentially a variation of the recursive style, because you need to 
make sure the continuation is called as a tail call):

let _ =
   let ary = [| 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12 |] in
   let rec loop f j =
     if j = 10 || ary.(j) = 5 then f ()
     else loop f (j + 1)
   in
     let rec outer i =
       if i <= 1_000_000_000 then
         loop (fun _ -> outer (i + 1)) 0
     in
       outer 1

This style is useful in some cases when you can write a significant 
part of your program using continuations.

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