Re: [Caml-list] stream conversion

[Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com>]

From: brogoff@speakeasy.net
>The documentation in the Stream library for the stream builders (you use
>Stream.of_string) states :
>
>   Warning: these functions create streams with fast access; it is illegal to
>   mix them with streams built with [< >]; would raise Failure  when
>   accessing such mixed streams.
>
>and you build such streams by stream concatenation with your convert function
>and when you make foo.

There's a fix for this bug at http://www.fungible.com/stream_fixed.ml
and http://www.fungible.com/stream_fixed.mli.

It's bug 1284 in the OCAML bug-tracking system.

According to the benchmark given in the comments at the end of
http://www.fungible.com/stream_fixed.ml, my version is essentially the
same speed as the original.

Unlike the original version, it does not do type-unsafe efficiency
hacks.

The bug database at http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs documents that
bug 1284 has been ignored without comment as of 9 Dec 2003.  My code
is a clean solution to a problem that has been reported repeatedly, so
I find that frustrating.  This looks to me like a clear signal that I
shouldn't bother sending them any other bugfixes.

-- 
Tim Freeman                                                  tim@fungible.com
I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.       -- Steven Wright


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