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From: "Christopher L Conway" <cconway@cs.nyu.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr> wrote:
>
>  On 2008-02-20, at 17:02, Christopher L Conway wrote:
>
>  >>                let newList = List.rev_append [newElement] oldList in
>  >
>  > This is what is known as a "functional anti-pattern" [1].
>
>  Not really.  This is just a rather long-winded way to write
>
>                 let newList = newElement :: oldList in
>
>  but it doesn't take much more time or memory to execute.

That was silly of me. A point (not my original point) still stands:
the code is non-idiomatic.

List.rev_append [newElement] oldList
  = List.append [newElement] oldList
  = newElement :: oldList

Regards,
Chris