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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New to Ocaml
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:27:07 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100202152707.8f4a1e24.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a892eb141002012018y28ff8779wce2c84b18ef7002a@mail.gmail.com>

chaithanya kr wrote:

> Hi all. I am new to Ocaml. Just started learning recently.
> 
> I was studying lists in ocaml. In that, suppose there is a list by name
> singly_list, then by saying "List.length singly_list;;" I will get the
> length of the linked list.
> 
> Similarly can anyone tell me as to how to sort a linked list using the
> 'sort' function? Please give me an example of using List.sort.

In Ocaml, lists are immutable (cannot be changed) and hence, sorting
a list results in a new list:

   let sorted_list = List.sort unsorted_list in ....

Erik
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-02  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-02  4:18 chaithanya kr
2010-02-02  4:27 ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2010-02-02  7:22   ` [Caml-list] " Miguel Pignatelli
2010-02-02  8:58 ` Richard Jones
2010-02-02 13:04   ` chaithanya kr

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