From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B629BBB9C for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:56:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jANKuvnT002958 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:56:58 +0100 Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E75D17722; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:56:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:56:54 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: jU+XZX8L1uMbbarGSjxzX5ZDar0q9r61up/ToDGKRk6u 1132779413 Received: from munge (burnham.ljcrf.edu [192.231.106.2]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E9657146D; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:56:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:56:46 -0800 (PST) From: Martin Jambon X-X-Sender: martin@munge To: Arthur Chargueraud Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unexpected behaviour of strings initialized with quotes In-Reply-To: <002601c5f017$7ba6cc10$e600a8c0@arthur> Message-ID: References: <002601c5f017$7ba6cc10$e600a8c0@arthur> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4384D79A.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 initialized:01 initialized:01 wrote:01 behaviour:01 behaviour:01 strings:01 strings:01 jambon:01 jambon:01 string:02 string:02 unexpected:03 let:03 let:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Arthur Chargueraud wrote: > I am surprized by a difference of behaviour between the strings > "bbbb" and (String.make 4 'b'). ... > This is not a real problem, since it is not usual to modify > strings initialized with quotes, but I am just wandering > about the reason of such a behaviour... It's actually easier to write String.copy "abc" instead of "abc" than: let f = let constant = "abc" fun x -> ... do_something_with constant ... instead of: let f x = ... do_something_with "abc" ... which happens all the time. -- Martin Jambon, PhD http://martin.jambon.free.fr Store and share your bioinformatics tips at http://wikiomics.org