From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: "Johan Baltié" <johan.baltie@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: OCaml Mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Breaking out of iterative loops
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 10:57:07 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD08EE3.9010202@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204302331.32905.johan.baltie@wanadoo.fr>
Johan Baltié wrote:
>
>Think you should look for exception handling.
>I do not use anything that looks like a "continue" and "break" as i generally
>avoid loop in my code and i do not think there is any.
>
>break:
>try
> for ... do
> raise End_Loop
> done
>with End_Loop ->
>
>
>But please, for my soul sake, avoid such things unless you do really need an
>exception
>
the particular example that bugs me the most is this one:
List.fold_left (&&) true (List.map2 pred a b)
What is the input data were infinite?
Hmmm .. in an eager language, the usual
functional decomposition is useless.
CPS is looking better every day :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-02 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-30 20:27 Vincent Foley
2002-04-30 21:38 ` Johan Baltié
2002-05-02 0:57 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
2002-05-02 2:18 ` John Prevost
2002-05-02 8:33 ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-02 9:14 ` Francois Pottier
2002-05-02 9:50 ` Alain Frisch
2002-05-02 14:35 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-05-02 15:40 ` John Max Skaller
2002-05-02 13:15 Krishnaswami, Neel
2002-05-02 13:34 ` Markus Mottl
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