From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] List.rev
Date: 02 May 2004 05:11:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083438663.20722.79.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040501164108.GA9707@complete.org>
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 02:41, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:59:10AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> > BTW: documentation that says a function is 'tail recursive'
> > is misguided. That's an implementation detail of no
> > possible use to a user of the function. The user may
> > benefit from knowing the complexity of the function
> > in terms of speed and auxilliary storage required.
>
> That wrong. I really want to know whether or not I'm going to get a
> stack overflow from using a function on a large list.
Sigh. I agree. You want to know that. And saying
'tail-rec' DOES NOT TELL YOU. Saying O(1) stack does.
So I'd like to see those comments changed to actually
describe behaviour in abstract terms, rather than
just being a loose hint about the possible implementation,
leaving you to guess what the implication is.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-30 17:54 [Caml-list] "List.index" or "List.unique" functions? Rahul Siddharthan
2004-04-30 18:51 ` Martin Jambon
2004-04-30 19:01 ` Benjamin Geer
2004-04-30 19:07 ` Thanks " Rahul Siddharthan
2004-04-30 19:08 ` Karl Zilles
2004-04-30 19:29 ` Matthieu Sozeau
2004-04-30 20:01 ` Karl Zilles
2004-04-30 20:05 ` Remi Vanicat
2004-04-30 20:47 ` JM Nunes
2004-04-30 20:58 ` Karl Zilles
2004-05-01 1:59 ` [Caml-list] List.rev skaller
2004-05-01 4:18 ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-01 4:38 ` brogoff
2004-05-01 5:12 ` skaller
2004-05-01 7:08 ` William Lovas
2004-05-01 8:10 ` skaller
2004-05-01 8:32 ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-01 9:24 ` skaller
2004-05-02 12:07 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-05-02 13:29 ` skaller
2004-05-01 10:07 ` Richard Jones
2004-05-01 10:09 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-05-02 16:04 ` Brian Hurt
2004-05-01 10:32 ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-01 16:41 ` John Goerzen
2004-05-01 19:11 ` skaller [this message]
2004-05-01 10:03 ` [Caml-list] "List.index" or "List.unique" functions? Richard Jones
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