From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
Cc: John Prevost <visigoth@cs.cmu.edu>,
OCaml Mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Breaking out of iterative loops
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 01:40:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD15DE8.7070408@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020502083335.GB16030@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at>
Markus Mottl wrote:
>On Wed, 01 May 2002, John Prevost wrote:
>
>>The drawback to allowing:
>>
>>let rec ones = 1 :: ones
>>
>>and such expressions is that when looking at the definition of, for
>>example, 'a list and length, one would expect it to be guaranteed that
>>length terminates. Since you can't prevent recursive use of
>>constructors, well, you can no longer guarantee that.
>>
>
>I second this. Does anybody here really benefit from such cyclic
>structures?
>
Well .. don't they make a good representation of recursive types?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-02 15:40 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
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 [this message]
2002-05-02 13:15 Krishnaswami, Neel
2002-05-02 13:34 ` Markus Mottl
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