From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Parameter evaluation order
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:29:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EAB6C133-07D3-42E6-9CD6-FE2FE959DE59@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124781154.8832.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Aug 23, 2005, at 09:12, skaller wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 18:50 +0200, Damien Doligez wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> Suppose you want to evaluate a curried function call in left-to-right
>> order:
>> f e1 e2 e3 e4
>>
>> You must evaluate f first, then e1. Then you must apply f to e1,
>> giving
>> a new function g1. Then you must evalue e2, then apply f1 to e2,
>> giving
>> f2, etc.
>>
>> That's because f might do some side effects between its arguments.
>>
>>
>>
>
> what data, and possibly annotations, would be required to solve this
> problem?
>
>
The most direct solution is to introduce the notion of function arity
in the type system. As far as I know, there is no theoretical
difficulty,
the biggest problem is to find a syntax that satisfies everyone...
-- Damien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-23 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-19 22:21 "Márk S. Zoltán"
2005-08-20 9:12 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2005-08-26 17:53 ` "Márk S. Zoltán"
2005-08-22 16:50 ` Damien Doligez
2005-08-23 7:12 ` skaller
2005-08-23 11:29 ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2005-08-23 13:34 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-08-23 19:52 ` Damien Doligez
2005-08-24 1:24 ` Hao-yang Wang
2005-08-24 11:33 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2005-08-24 14:39 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-24 15:47 ` Berkeley DB Joel Reymont
2005-08-24 16:08 ` [Caml-list] Re: Parameter evaluation order brogoff
2005-08-24 20:05 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-24 20:25 ` brogoff
2005-08-24 20:53 ` Jon Harrop
[not found] ` <430CE193.9000805@univ-savoie.fr>
2005-08-26 9:53 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 10:10 ` Jon Harrop
2005-08-26 12:09 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 12:26 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2005-08-26 16:48 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-27 15:33 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-08-26 12:36 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-08-26 14:17 ` Fernando Alegre
2005-08-26 17:00 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 22:58 ` skaller
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