From: Radu Grigore <radugrigore@gmail.com>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] really HO Functions
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 08:02:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f8e92aa04100122022209e767@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096490891.415b1f8b2ecbd@mouette.ens-lyon.fr>
Thanks everyone who answered.
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:48:11 +0200 (CEST), Jean-Baptiste Rouquier
<jrouquiethearchiveshouldhaveafewantispamtricks@ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, may I ask why you're looking for such functions ?
I am learning OCaml now. The last two-three days I've written a small
prototype; then I have reviewed it and one of the observations was
that it contains no second-order function.
Possible reasons:
1. higher order functions are hard (intellectually unmanageable)
2. HOFs are not needed in practice above a certain order
3. failure to recognize places where a HOF is needed (beyond the
standard examples in tutorial).
Number 3 was what prompted me to ask the question: a few examples
always help. Unfortunately I didn't yet had time to read the cited
articles :(.
--
regards,
radu
http://rgrig.idilis.ro/
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 20:48 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier
2004-10-02 5:02 ` Radu Grigore [this message]
2004-10-02 6:33 ` John Prevost
2004-10-02 16:44 ` Seth J. Fogarty
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2004-09-30 17:30 Harrison, John R
2004-09-29 18:48 Radu Grigore
2004-09-29 19:24 ` Jacques Carette
2004-09-29 22:31 ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-29 23:32 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-30 6:27 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-09-30 19:27 ` Michal Moskal
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