From: cookedm+news@physics.mcmaster.ca (David M. Cooke)
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Question on performance/style issue
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:37:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qnkhd6kzavi.fsf@arbutus.physics.mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602251214.03353.Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com>
Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com> writes:
> On Friday 24 February 2006 20:25, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
>> Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>> >>>x ++ f ++ g ++ h
>> >>
>> >>What is the impact of the this programming style on execution
>> >> performance?
>
> 1. It should be easy enough to extend the syntax so that you don't have to
> worry about it getting compiled away.
>
> 2. Mathematica uses notation x // f. Why not use the same? Many people will
> misunderstand ++ as something coming from C.
Those of use who don't use Mathematica will misunderstand that as a
comment (from C++), or an integer divide (Python), or ...?
:-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-24 15:52 Alessandro Baretta
2006-02-24 19:05 ` [Caml-list] " Anil Madhavapeddy
2006-02-24 19:25 ` Alessandro Baretta
2006-02-25 11:14 ` Andrej Bauer
2006-02-27 22:37 ` David M. Cooke [this message]
2006-02-27 23:49 ` [Caml-list] " David Brown
2006-02-28 12:02 ` Alessandro Baretta
2006-02-28 12:04 ` [Caml-list] " Alessandro Baretta
2006-03-01 5:45 ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-03-01 8:34 ` Alessandro Baretta
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