Re: [Caml-list] Function returning recursive lists

[Didier Cassirame <didier.cassirame@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Regarding the original question, wouldn't it be easier to implement it
as a stream?

didier

2012/12/28, Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info>:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Peter Frey <pjfrey@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> The problem with docycle is not its coding style but that it produces in
>> fact a cyclic list, which is not very useful: Almost all functions, such
>> as List.rev are undefined.
>
> From my point of view, this coding style is fundamentally *wrong*:
> - it makes assumptions on the internal data representation,
> - and it prevents the compiler from making any optimisation from the
> fact that elements of built-in lists are immutable (and if the
> compilers makes some optimisations from that fact, then it's not only
> the style but the program that is wrong).
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Philippe Wang
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