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From: Charles Martin <joelisp@yahoo.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Stack Overflow... (recursion in try-statement)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:31:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020423222913.02ea04d0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020424045225.GD2828@alan-schm1p>


>I think you stumbled on the good old "evaluation order is not specified"
>thingy ... If the right hand side of the append is called before the
>left hand side, it is not going to work. How about this code:
>
>let rec traversedir dir =
>  try 
>    let d = Unix.readdir dir in
>    d :: (traversedir dir)
>  with
>  | End_of_file -> []

You are building a stack of exception handlers here as well... you might want to go with:

let traversedir dir =
  let dd = ref [] in
  try while true do dd := Unix.readdir dir :: !dd done
  with End_of_file -> !dd

Disclaimer: I didn't run this code :)


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-24  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-23 21:48 Oliver Bandel
2002-04-23 22:23 ` Will Benton
2002-04-23 22:50 ` Oliver Bandel
2002-04-23 23:25   ` John Prevost
2002-05-21 18:34     ` [Caml-list] Is CVS version of ocaml faster? John Max Skaller
2002-05-22  3:03       ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-05-22 16:29         ` John Max Skaller
2002-06-30 17:25     ` [Caml-list] ocamllex -- ambiguous regex John Max Skaller
2002-07-01 11:45       ` Xavier Leroy
2002-06-30 17:27     ` [Caml-list] Manual broken -- set John Max Skaller
2002-04-24  1:01 ` [Caml-list] Stack Overflow... (recursion in try-statement) Warp
2002-04-24 13:22   ` Oliver Bandel
2002-04-24  4:10 ` John Prevost
2002-04-24  4:52 ` Alan Schmitt
2002-04-24  5:31   ` Charles Martin [this message]
2002-04-24 13:25   ` Oliver Bandel

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