Re: [Caml-list] Frustrated Beginner

[Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>]

On Dec 22, 2003, at 23:23, Tyler Eaves wrote:

> This makes since in general. I'm guess h and t correspond to the head 
> and tail of the lift. It'll probably make more sense tomorrow. It's 
> 2:11 here, and I'd planned to be asleep two hours ago. The replies 
> have kept me up ;)
>
> Based on what I've learned, I've tried to write a simple prime number 
> finder. It doesn't actually *work* or anything (Syntax Error on line 
> 23, can't figure out why...), but I think I've figured some of this 
> stuff out, kinda. I'm encouraged at least.

	I responded to this off-list.  Basically it's learning to program 
without side-effects.  I provided a few side-effect-free 
implementations which can be seen here:

	http://bleu.west.spy.net/~dustin/tmp/primes.ml.html

	I rather like this, as well:  
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/ocaml/Notes/okoans.shtml

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