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From: David Baelde <david.baelde@gmail.com>
To: Till Varoquaux <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Curried form different from "normal"
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 17:59:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53c655920602050859k3e82b21ar54783443948a6301@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8300602050840ha03fcd2wf8a43bd7a09732f2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Your statement is true only for purely functional definitions. Here,
there is a difference. The following piece of code is evaluated only
one, at the time of the outermost definition. So trailing is
instantiated only once.

>       if !is_first then
>         trailling:=Buffer.contents white
>       else
>         Buffer.add_buffer buf white;
>       Buffer.reset white;
>       is_first:=false;

This kind of effect is sometimes expected, however.

Have fun.
--
David


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-05 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-05 16:40 Till Varoquaux
2006-02-05 16:59 ` David Baelde [this message]
2006-02-05 18:00 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2006-02-05 18:14   ` Till Varoquaux

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