From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA02916; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:37:23 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA01842 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:37:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from juliet.albedo.net (juliet.albedo.net [206.51.22.2]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i86MbL2M025372 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:37:21 +0200 Received: from albedo.net (ppp211.albedo.net [206.51.22.211]) (authenticated bits=0) by juliet.albedo.net (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i86MbCWA015640; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 18:37:12 -0400 Message-ID: <413CE639.5090103@albedo.net> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:35:37 -0400 From: Hartmann Schaffer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5 X-Accept-Language: en-ca, en-us, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Jones CC: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] laziness References: <413879B6@webmail> <20040906005741.GA20406@annexia.org> In-Reply-To: <20040906005741.GA20406@annexia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.74, clamav-milter version 0.74a on juliet X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 413CE6A1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; schaffer:99 schaffer:99 caml-list:01 bug:01 bug:01 laziness:02 laziness:02 wrote:03 data:03 data:03 quite:06 written:08 supposedly:10 depending:11 run:12 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Richard Jones wrote: > ... > >One thing that worries me about laziness. > >Doesn't laziness often indicate a bug in the code? ie. You've >written an expression in the program, but that expression is never >used. This is dead code, right? Hence a bug? > > well, programs supposedly run against quite a few different data sets, and depending on the particular data set, some code segments might never be executed >... > > hs ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners