From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA24188; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:05:04 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA24607 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:05:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from herd.plethora.net (herd.plethora.net [205.166.146.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6TG51SH016638 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:05:02 +0200 Received: from bhurt.plethora.net (bhurt.plethora.net [205.166.146.49]) by herd.plethora.net (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id i6TG4qo17083; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:04:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:12:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Hurt X-X-Sender: bhurt@localhost.localdomain To: brogoff cc: Alex Baretta , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] looping recursion In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4109202D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 recursion:01 brogoff:01 catenable:01 deques:01 extlib:01 simplistic:01 purely:02 wrote:03 redirect:95 imperative:04 complicated:04 functional:06 jul:06 brian:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, brogoff wrote: > Some problems are just way easier to solve with imperative programming > though. Have you ever taken a look at purely functional catenable deques? Just got added to extlib, for the record. A simplistic version that actually isn't that much more complicated than the imperitive implementation. -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford Brian ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners