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From: Christophe Raffalli <raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: try and tail call
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:00:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453A27EB.8070609@univ-savoie.fr> (raw)


consider this piece of code:

  (try
    let b = f a in
    (fun () -> g b)
  with
    (fun () -> h a)) ()


Is the call to "g" a tail call and is it omptimized as such ?

If not, how to encode a feature like this one:

  try
    ...
  end
    ... (* the exception raised here are not handles by with but 
propagated *)
  with
    ...

By the way I think this "try ... [end ...] with ..." syntax is usefull 
anyway because you have often a bug when
you write

try
  let b = f a in (* you know this may raise Not_found *)
  g b (* you assume wrongly that this can not raise Not_found *)
with
  Not_found -> h a

The unwanted capture of Not_found could be avoided with try ... end ... 
with ...

Christophe Raffalli

 


             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-21 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-21 14:00 Christophe Raffalli [this message]
2006-10-21 15:03 ` [Caml-list] " Chris King
2006-10-22 17:16   ` Christophe Raffalli
2006-10-22  2:44 ` ketty
2006-10-22 17:08   ` Christophe Raffalli

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