From: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>
To: Simon Cruanes <simon.cruanes.2007@m4x.org>
Cc: Ivan Gotovchits <ivg@ieee.org>,
David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>,
caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What if exn was not an open type?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:54:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k1zpzrmp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171020113815.GD32138@nunchakus.loria.fr> (Simon Cruanes's message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:38:16 +0200")
Simon Cruanes <simon.cruanes.2007@m4x.org> writes:
> Exceptions are also very useful as control structures sometimes. For
> example:
>
> - exiting from a traversal (graph, tree, `Foo.iter` functions) early
> - being able to return a result from any point in a very large algorithm
> (e.g. returning "sat" or "unsat" in a SAT solver, where the main
> algorithm can span several hundreds or thousands of lines).
Seems like monads address this as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-20 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-20 9:56 Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-20 10:55 ` David Allsopp
2017-10-20 11:21 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-10-20 11:38 ` Simon Cruanes
2017-10-20 16:54 ` Malcolm Matalka [this message]
2017-10-20 19:47 ` Simon Cruanes
2017-10-21 21:15 ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-24 13:30 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-10-24 19:02 ` Petter A. Urkedal
2017-11-04 18:44 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-04 18:48 ` SP
2017-11-04 18:53 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-04 19:03 ` SP
2017-11-04 19:01 ` Max Mouratov
2017-11-04 19:16 ` octachron
2017-11-05 17:41 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-05 18:39 ` Yaron Minsky
2017-11-05 20:49 ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-11-05 21:48 ` Yaron Minsky
2017-11-05 21:53 ` Petter A. Urkedal
2017-11-05 18:02 ` Petter A. Urkedal
2017-11-05 18:24 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-05 18:55 ` Petter A. Urkedal
[not found] ` <CALa9pHQ-nhWf4T0U5gDiKTduPiEeXSZPQ=DY6N1YNbCXqRohPQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-10-25 8:35 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-10-25 9:12 ` Philippe Veber
2017-10-25 14:52 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-10-25 16:37 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-10-25 17:47 ` SP
2017-10-26 8:06 ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-26 8:11 ` Xavier Leroy
2017-10-25 13:36 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-10-26 7:31 ` Petter A. Urkedal
2017-10-27 13:58 ` Oleg
2017-10-27 14:24 ` Philippe Veber
2017-10-27 14:49 ` Leo White
2017-11-01 7:16 ` Oleg
2017-11-04 17:52 ` Philippe Veber
2017-10-20 17:07 ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-21 21:28 ` Nathan Moreau
2017-10-22 12:39 ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-22 13:08 ` Nathan Moreau
2017-10-24 11:11 ` SP
2017-10-24 11:16 ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-10-25 11:30 ` Malcolm Matalka
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