Re: [SPAM_PROBABLE] - [Caml-list] How to do this properly with OCaml? - Bayesian Filter detected spam

[Christophe Dehlinger <christophe.dehlinger@ifp.fr>]

Thomas Fischbacher wrote:

> Please don't tell me that "well, OCaml is not Lisp, after all".
> This I already know. But is there no proper way to get around that
> (technically speaking) unnecessary extra level of indirection that is
> forced upon me due to static type checking?
>
Hi Thomas,

What you're trying to build looks a lot like Extlib's dynamic 
(resizable) arrays.
I gave their implementation a cursory look: it seems to rely heavily on 
the Obj module.
So I guess there probably is no clean and efficient way to do this.

Of course, it is pretty awkward having to scan for the first element in

> the first nonempty array in an array of arrays, especially as that 
> element
> really does not play a that special role.
>
> Could anyone please tell me how to do all this in a more appropriate way?
>
Here's imho a more elegant way to flatten arrays :

let flatten arar =
  let cur_length = ref (-1) in
  let ai = ref (-1) in
  let i = ref (-1) in
  let total_length = Array.fold_left (fun accu ar -> accu + 
(Array.length ar)) 0 arar in
  let initfun _ =
    incr i ;
    while !i >= !cur_length do
      incr ai ;
      cur_length := Array.length arar.(!ai) ;
      i := 0
    done ;
    arar.(!ai).(!i) in
  Array.init total_length initfun;;
val flatten : 'a array array -> 'a array = <fun>
# flatten [| [|1;2;3|]; [|4|]; [| |]; [|5; 6|] |] ;;
- : int array = [|1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6|]

However, this is very different from the first problem, as
- you know at the time of creation of the array both its length and its 
contents
- its length will not change after its creation


I have my own array-related problem, so I'll plug it here :)
A couple of times, I would have liked to build arrays of functions whose 
body uses the array itself, like:

#let rec foo = Array.init 5 (fun n () -> if n=0 then 0 else foo.(n/2) ())
 This kind of expression is not allowed as right-hand side of `let rec'

Why is this kind of construct forbidden ?

Cheers,
Christophe



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