From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Pervasives.compare output type
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:00:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acosu5c9.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050324194115.GB9518@furbychan.cocan.org> (Richard Jones's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:41:15 +0000")
Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> writes:
>> type comparison_result = Less | Equals | Greater
>>
>> What are the reasons behind the present design choice?
>
> Wouldn't it be for speed? You could define Pervasives.compare over
> integers just as a subtraction.
You can't, because of overflow.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-24 18:47 Alex Baretta
2005-03-24 19:41 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2005-03-24 21:00 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [this message]
2005-03-24 21:38 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-03-24 22:07 ` [Caml-list] " Jason Hickey
2005-03-24 22:26 ` brogoff
2005-03-25 9:42 ` Alex Baretta
2005-04-01 5:59 ` Aleksey Nogin
2005-03-24 22:15 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-03-24 22:41 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-03-25 9:43 ` [Caml-list] " Alex Baretta
2005-03-29 7:14 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2005-03-30 14:17 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-03-30 14:45 ` Alex Baretta
2005-03-30 15:11 ` Jacques Carette
2005-03-30 15:28 ` Alex Baretta
2005-03-30 17:47 ` brogoff
2005-03-30 18:21 ` Jacques Carette
2005-03-30 18:49 ` brogoff
2005-03-30 20:06 ` Jon Harrop
2005-03-30 20:43 ` Jacques Carette
2005-03-30 22:14 ` Christopher Dutchyn
2005-03-31 0:44 ` brogoff
2005-03-30 22:43 ` GADT?? (Re: [Caml-list] Pervasives.compare output type) Oliver Bandel
2005-03-30 22:35 ` [Caml-list] Pervasives.compare output type Oliver Bandel
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