From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The Implicit Accumulator: a design pattern using optional arguments
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:05:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706281405.22424.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4683B0C7.7060201@functionality.de>
On Thursday 28 June 2007 13:59:51 Thomas Fischbacher wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
> > I would write:
> >
> > let rec work sum = function
> >
> > | 0 -> sum
> > | todo -> work (sum + todo) (todo - 1)
> >
> > let sum_nums n = work 0 n
> >
> > because it is shorter, clearer, 65% faster and it is idiomatic ML rather
> > than idiomatic Lisp.
>
> You are still evading the issue: you nevertheless pass multiple arguments to
> a continuation, rather than consing a return value.
Continuations and consing have nothing to do with this.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
The OCaml Journal
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 12:14 Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 13:18 ` [Caml-list] " Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 13:53 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 14:18 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-27 15:09 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 15:28 ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-06-27 15:38 ` Robert Fischer
2007-06-27 15:48 ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-06-27 16:01 ` Robert Fischer
2007-06-27 16:01 ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-06-27 18:06 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 18:31 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-27 19:56 ` skaller
2007-06-27 20:17 ` Jonathan Bryant
2007-06-27 22:57 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 16:53 ` Hash-consing (was Re: [Caml-list] The Implicit Accumulator: a design pattern using optional arguments) Daniel Bünzli
2007-06-30 8:19 ` [Caml-list] The Implicit Accumulator: a design pattern using optional arguments Pierre Etchemaïté
2007-06-27 13:55 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-27 15:06 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 15:53 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-28 11:01 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-28 11:32 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-28 11:42 ` Joel Reymont
2007-06-28 12:08 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-28 13:10 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-28 13:35 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-28 12:59 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-28 13:05 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-06-28 13:33 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-28 14:43 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-28 16:01 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-28 17:53 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 16:39 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-27 19:26 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-28 11:39 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-28 14:44 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-28 16:03 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-28 17:20 ` Dirk Thierbach
2007-06-28 22:12 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-29 1:10 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-29 10:55 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-29 6:12 ` Dirk Thierbach
2007-06-27 17:16 ` Book about functional design patterns Gabriel Kerneis
2007-06-27 17:48 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 19:33 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 19:30 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 19:48 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-27 20:04 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 20:35 ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-27 20:55 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 20:58 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2007-06-27 21:18 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 21:18 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2007-06-27 21:34 ` Quôc Peyrot
2007-06-27 22:13 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2007-06-27 15:18 ` [Caml-list] The Implicit Accumulator: a design pattern using optional arguments Jon Harrop
2007-06-27 16:44 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-27 18:17 ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-28 11:18 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-06-29 13:15 ` Bill Wood
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