From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5040EBC6C for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:36:58 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAALc2kUfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQFQEBAQgKKZ1mBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,220,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="6931521" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 19 Jan 2008 08:36:58 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0J7atN8015192 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:36:58 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAOM3kUfa1uFinmdsb2JhbACQFQEBAQEBBgQGBwoYnWUE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,220,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8063671" Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au ([218.214.225.98]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with SMTP; 19 Jan 2008 08:36:54 +0100 Received: (qmail 22670 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2008 07:37:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp.syd.people.net.au with SMTP; 19 Jan 2008 07:37:04 -0000 Received: from hendrix (hendrix [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4764DAB10D for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:36:51 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:36:51 +1100 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Concatenation of static strings? Message-Id: <20080119183651.a7ac5c56.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c85a67$9e7cf5e0$6c7ba8c0@countertenor> References: <20080119143259.46752d11.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <000501c85a67$9e7cf5e0$6c7ba8c0@countertenor> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4791A897.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 compiler:01 compiler:01 endline:01 config:01 wrote:01 integer:01 typing:01 caml-list:01 arithmetic:01 strings:01 static:03 let:03 erik:04 erik:04 David Allsopp wrote: > I don't know whether the compiler optimises the concatenation (it ought to, > just as constant integer arithmetic ought to be evaluated by the compiler), > but how about writing: > > let print_usage () = > print_endline "\n\ > Usage : progname [options]\n\ > \ progname [options] " > > Which is less typing. Ah, thats much nicer. Thanks. Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "C++ : Where friends have access to your private members." -- Gavin Russell Baker