Re: [Caml-list] two unrelated questions

[Judicaël Courant <Judicael.Courant@lri.fr>]

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:38:43 -0400 (EDT) Patrick M Doane wrote:
> 
> One way to think about exceptions is to treat them simply as control
flow
> expressions. For example, the 'break' statement is used in C/C++ to
> early-out of iteration constructs. This translates naturally to
> exceptions:
> 
>   exception Break
>   try
>     List.iter (fun ..  -> ...  raise Break) l
>   with Break -> ()
> 

Actually there is already such a predefined exception in the core library
of O'Caml. The doc says:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
exception Exit

     This exception is not raised by any library function. It is provided
for use in your programs. 
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Judicaël.
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