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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 21:49:41 kirillkh wrote:
> A little weird to see such inherently functional construct as fold
> implemented imperatively.

On the contrary, this is the core functionality of ML that makes it so 
practically useful: combining functional and imperative programming neatly 
and efficiently.

Look at the Array and Hashtbl modules of the stdlib for more examples of code 
that is both imperative and functional.

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