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[Caml-list] Why do input* and readdir throw End_of_file ... annoying!

Richard Jones
- Michal Moskal
- Ville-Pertti Keinonen
  - Brian Hurt
    - Richard Jones
      - Alan Post
      - Brian Hurt
    - Lauri Alanko
  - Richard Jones
    - Eric C. Cooper
      - David Brown
        
        art yerkes
        
        Brian Hurt
      - Fabrice Le Fessant

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Alan Post <apost@r...>
Subject:	[Caml-list] Re: Why do input* and readdir throw End_of_file ... annoying!

In article <20030606185111.GA3545@redhat.com>, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:49:55PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote:
>> The problem with try/with is that it's way to easy to break tail recursion 
>> using try/with.  About every other week someone comes to the Ocaml 
>> beginners list where they are doing something like:
> 
> What's a good way to read all the lines of a file into a list? I
> can put it into the OCaml tutorial I'm writing.

Use ExtLib, of course.  :)

List.of_enum (input_enum chan)

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