Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 18:01:53 +0200 (MET DST)
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
From: Goffinet <goffinet@cit-novell.univ-st-etienne.fr>
Subject: a perplexing difference
Hello
I'm unable to understand why my fonctions do return these answers
(* first a vect swapping function*)
let swap k t=
let prov=t.(k-1) in
t.(k-1)<-t.(k);t.(k)<-prov;
t
;;
(*and as I was doubting of everithing I even tried it!*)
let b=swap 3 [|1;2;3;4;5;6|];;
let c=swap 1 b;;
b;;
(*then an iterator which gives a list of the running results : as with the
Mathematica FoldList*)
let rec fold_list f l a=match l with
[]->[a]
|p::q->a::fold_list f q (f p a);;
(* first a test with an ordinary function, then another with swap:
the first one does what I expected it would,
the other one yields four times the same list*)
let h u v=u+10*v;;
fold_list h [5;6;7] 0;;
fold_list swap [1;3;2] [|10;20;30;40;50|];;
(* so I made another swap_like function, I tried, It works*)
let h x t=[|-x+t.(1);t.(0)|];;
fold_list h [1;3;2] [|10;20;30;40;50|];;
I also tried to Nest my swaps on the command line (with several ((...)))): I
got the fold_list I expected (and not the constant one)
As always, more than an answer, a reference to some place in the
caml books where I might have found the answer would be welcomed.
Thanks!