On Sunday 14 January 2007 23:38, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
> Le Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:49:57 +0000, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
> a écrit :
> > Playing with Haskell and F# has opened my eyes a bit. F#'s operator
> > overloading and active patterns will make my code much nicer. Being
> > lazier can simplify things until you have to optimise, in which case
> > it suddenly becomes really complicated and error prone.
>
> What do you mean exactly in this last sentence ? I agree OCaml should
> evolve but what kind of "laziness" are you referring to ?

Lazy (as opposed to eager) computation. OCaml is very eager. Using laziness 
more can speed things up in some simple cases, e.g. nested maps and folds.

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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