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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] reverse a list

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lists are immutable so you'll be constructing a list as you consume
> another list.

Please don't formulate it this way, as it sounds to me as if the list
being "consumed" is disappearing (because that's what generally
happens when something is being "consumed").  :-/
To the beginners reading this: well, in OCaml, any given list will
never disappear before it actually becomes useless, and they may be
"consumed" over and over again without any "harm" happening to them.