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From: "Hao-yang Wang" <hywang@pobox.com>
To: "caml-list" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Parameter evaluation order
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:24:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000401c5a84a$a2e79760$1866b811@Operational> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <254E6767-A097-455B-872B-483725D26744@inria.fr>


>Suppose you want to evaluate a curried function call in left-to-right
>order:
>f e1 e2 e3 e4
>
>You must evaluate f first, then e1.  Then you must apply f to e1, giving
>a new function g1.  Then you must evalue e2, then apply f1 to e2, giving
>f2, etc.

It seems to me that as long as evaluate f the last, we are ok. We can 
specify the evaluation order of the _parameters_ left-to-right (i.e., e1 
then e2, e3, e4, and finally f), without running into the efficiency 
problem.

Cheers,
Hao-yang Wang 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-24  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-19 22:21 "Márk S. Zoltán"
2005-08-20  9:12 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2005-08-26 17:53   ` "Márk S. Zoltán"
2005-08-22 16:50 ` Damien Doligez
2005-08-23  7:12   ` skaller
2005-08-23 11:29     ` Damien Doligez
2005-08-23 13:34       ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-08-23 19:52         ` Damien Doligez
2005-08-24  1:24   ` Hao-yang Wang [this message]
2005-08-24 11:33     ` [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2005-08-24 14:39       ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-24 15:47         ` Berkeley DB Joel Reymont
2005-08-24 16:08         ` [Caml-list] Re: Parameter evaluation order brogoff
2005-08-24 20:05           ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-24 20:25             ` brogoff
2005-08-24 20:53               ` Jon Harrop
     [not found]               ` <430CE193.9000805@univ-savoie.fr>
2005-08-26  9:53                 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 10:10                   ` Jon Harrop
2005-08-26 12:09                     ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 12:26                       ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2005-08-26 16:48                         ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-27 15:33                           ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-08-26 12:36                       ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-08-26 14:17                         ` Fernando Alegre
2005-08-26 17:00                         ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-08-26 22:58                       ` skaller

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