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Date: | 1997-06-02 (21:20) |
From: | Dwight VandenBerghe <dwight@p...> |
Subject: | Re: Instruction return |
(I apologize for no French version) > let rech x v = > let n = vect_length v in > for i=0 to n-1 do > if v.(i) = x then return true > done; false;; This is one of the two main control problems with functional programming, IMHO. The solution I use is: exception Found_it let rech x v = try for i = 0 to pred (vect_length v) do if v.(i) = x then raise Found_it done; false with Found_it -> true You don't have to assign vect_length v to n; it is only evaluated once anyway. If iter is defined on the type of v, then you can also use let rech x v = try let f x1 = if x1 = x then raise Found_it in iter f v; false with Found_it -> true The other control problem is when you want the equivalent of: x = foo(a); bar(); return x; If you try let x = foo(a) in bar(); x then bar gets done first, instead of second. I use this instead: let f x = bar(); x in in f (foo a) I haven't found any other serious problems with Caml's logic flow. These two just take some getting used to. Dwight