From: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] break and continue for OCaml
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:35:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410203536.GA23529@stratocaster.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b0248170804091859s75c3f725s2db53f48fba6735c@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:59:16AM +0900, Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> I have the first cut of patch to implement break and continue inside
> for and while loops for OCaml.
> ...
> What do you think?
Yuck.
It adds more imperative baggage to the language, going against its
"mostly functional" style. And it doesn't add any expressive power,
since you can easily use exceptions, or bool refs as in Pascal, to
achieve the same effect.
The syntax and semantics would become more much complicated and
irregular. As others have pointed out, it's not even clear what a lot
of cases should mean.
If you want richer control structures, continuations and call/cc would
be much more in the functional spirit.
--
Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-10 1:59 Sanghyeon Seo
2008-04-10 7:09 ` [Caml-list] " Luc Maranget
2008-04-10 7:11 ` Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2008-04-10 14:12 ` David Allsopp
2008-04-10 14:41 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-10 13:39 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-10 14:05 ` Martin Jambon
2008-04-10 14:19 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-10 14:24 ` Michael Wohlwend
2008-04-10 14:35 ` Martin Jambon
2008-04-10 14:38 ` Michael Wohlwend
2008-04-10 22:23 ` Florian Weimer
2008-04-10 20:35 ` Eric Cooper [this message]
2008-04-11 0:14 ` Micha
2008-04-11 3:44 Andrew I. Schein
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