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From: YC <yinso.chen@gmail.com>
To: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@epfl.ch>
Cc: "caml-list List" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] best and fastest way to read lines from a file?
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:29:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <779bf2730710011529o74c08c2ah2fcfb086687b796b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2045B477-66BF-4A22-912F-DFB5E6D30570@epfl.ch>

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Thanks to everyone replied - your answers are extremely helpful.

> Your function is not tail recursive. A function is tail-recursive if
> there is nothing to do after the recursive call. You might believe
> this is the case in your function, but it is not the case because of
> the exception handler. Try this instead :

I did wonder whether my function was tail recursive but thought maybe it
is.  Thanks for the correction from everyone on this point.  And the pattern
of returning Some or None makes sense to me now.  Rerun the test makes me
feel better ;)

Thanks,
yc

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-01 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-01 21:27 YC
2007-10-01 21:55 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-01 22:29   ` YC [this message]
2007-10-01 21:55 ` Olivier Roussel
2007-10-02 12:39   ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-10-02 12:56     ` Brian Hurt
2007-10-02 16:15       ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 17:10         ` verlyck, Bruno.Verlyck
2007-10-02 18:02         ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 19:35           ` skaller
2007-10-02 21:05             ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 21:07               ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-02 20:23           ` Olivier Andrieu
2007-10-02 20:49             ` kirillkh
2007-10-02 21:10               ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-02 21:15               ` David Allsopp
2007-10-02 22:23                 ` skaller

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