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Date: | 2002-05-02 (00:57) |
From: | John Max Skaller <skaller@o...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Breaking out of iterative loops |
Johan Baltié wrote: > >Think you should look for exception handling. >I do not use anything that looks like a "continue" and "break" as i generally >avoid loop in my code and i do not think there is any. > >break: >try > for ... do > raise End_Loop > done >with End_Loop -> > > >But please, for my soul sake, avoid such things unless you do really need an >exception > the particular example that bugs me the most is this one: List.fold_left (&&) true (List.map2 pred a b) What is the input data were infinite? Hmmm .. in an eager language, the usual functional decomposition is useless. CPS is looking better every day :-) -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- 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