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
next prev 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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