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From: Florian Hars <florian@hars.de>
To: "Kontra, Gergely" <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] (Sorry for my last post) lazyness, exceptions?, ocaml syntax rule-of-thumbs
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:50:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D947045.9030009@hars.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0209261645450.19322-100000@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu>

Kontra, Gergely wrote:
  > One point was ocaml is really obscure is the file reading: it needed to
  > wrap the line-reading in an infinite loop, and this loop is ended via an
  > exception. I think End_of_file is not an exception, it is just an event.

For processing files a line at a time, I once decided to write a module
Textfile with the two methods

val iter : (string -> unit) -> in_channel -> unit
val fold : ('a -> string -> 'a) -> 'a -> in_channel -> 'a

and forget about whatever ugly things happen in there.

Yours, Florian.



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-27 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-26 15:50 Kontra, Gergely
2002-09-27  8:01 ` Maxence Guesdon
2002-09-27  8:14   ` Xavier Leroy
2002-09-27 10:29     ` Kontra, Gergely
2002-09-27 14:50 ` Florian Hars [this message]
2002-09-27 15:07   ` Maxence Guesdon
2002-09-27 17:06     ` Kontra, Gergely
2002-09-27 18:22       ` Tim Freeman
2002-09-27 22:27     ` malc
2002-09-28  9:30   ` [Caml-list] stdlib req - iter and fold on channels Stefano Zacchiroli
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209300427310.1961-100000@home.oyster.ru>
2002-09-30  1:19 ` [Caml-list] (Sorry for my last post) lazyness, exceptions?, ocaml syntax rule-of-thumbs Alessandro Baretta

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