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best and fastest way to read lines from a file?

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] best and fastest way to read lines from a file?

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 22:05:07 kirillkh wrote:
> Is it a deficiency in the language?

A constraint of the type system by design.

> I suppose OCaml could support 
> polymorphic exceptions, if they were checked, like in Java, and appeared in
> function signatures in a similar way to parameters and return values.

The exn type would need an undefined number of type parameters.

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