Re: vector dot multiply

[Ascander Suarez <suarez@usb.ve>]

Concerning your second question:

> ... 
> Also, is there a similar construct to Haskell array/list comprehensions?

There is indeed one construct called streams.

				Ascander (suarez@usb.ve)

---------- streamExamples.ml -----------

(*  A stream of natural numbers *)

let rec generate f b = [< 'b; (generate f (f b)) >];;

let nats = generate succ 0;;

(* With this definition, the stream natS 
   is the structure [< '0; '1; '2; ... >]
*)

(* A stream of Fibonacci numbers needs two generators
   and can be defined as:  
*)

let rec generate2 f b1 b2 = [< 'b1; (generate2 f b2 (f b1 b2)) >];;

let fibs = generate2 (prefix +) 1 1;;

(* Finally, primes can be computed as follows: 
*)

let rec filter n = 
 function [< 'm; s >] -> 
    if m mod n = 0 then filter n s 
    else [< 'm; (filter n s) >];;

let rec scieve = function [< 'm; s >] -> [< 'm; scieve(filter m s) >];;

let primes = [< '1; scieve (generate succ 2) >];;

(* 
   Notice that streams in Caml light are a little bit surprising in that 
   for any (big) stream s and any integer n, after

let s' = (function [< 'x1; 'x2; ...  'xn; restOfStream >] -> restOfStream) s;;

the streams s and s' are the same.

*)