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From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
Cc: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Long constant strings?
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:12:00 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312091911080.5009-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031209235748.GA16119@davidb.org>

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, David Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:35:42PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > Am I missing some nice way of doing this?  If not, is there any chance 
> > that a future rev of the compiler will recognize this idiom and 
> > concatenate the strings at compile time?
> 
> Why not:
> 
>  let text = "\
>    \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\008\009\010\012\013\014\015\016\
>    \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\008\009\010\012\013\014\015\016\
>    ...
>    "
> 
> Dave
> 

Thank you!  That's *exactly* what I want.

My stupid.

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Brian

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-12-10  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-10  0:35 Brian Hurt
2003-12-09 23:57 ` David Brown
2003-12-10  1:12   ` Brian Hurt [this message]

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