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Question on performance/style issue

Alessandro Baretta
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- Anil Madhavapeddy
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    - Andrej Bauer
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        Alessandro Baretta
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Date:	2006-02-25 (11:12)
From:	Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Question on performance/style issue

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.

Andrej