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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Florian Hars <florian@h...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] (Sorry for my last post) lazyness, exceptions?, ocaml syntax rule-of-thumbs |
Kontra, Gergely wrote:
> One point was ocaml is really obscure is the file reading: it needed to
> wrap the line-reading in an infinite loop, and this loop is ended via an
> exception. I think End_of_file is not an exception, it is just an event.
For processing files a line at a time, I once decided to write a module
Textfile with the two methods
val iter : (string -> unit) -> in_channel -> unit
val fold : ('a -> string -> 'a) -> 'a -> in_channel -> 'a
and forget about whatever ugly things happen in there.
Yours, Florian.
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