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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Static exception analysis or alternative to using  exceptions
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:12:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinw-Stao4jSM3eVeH2IKH-Um4pAy71xW8X2dTIc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01cafd7a$3f6595e0$be30c1a0$@romulus.metastack.com>

> Agreed - though [find] is one of the examples where you do need find and
> find_exc - because often there are occasions where before calling
> {Map,Set,Hashtbl}.find you already know that the key exists and so won't
> fail at which point the 'a option boxing is a waste of time and space and
> Not_found would be a truly exceptional situation so passes the previously
> mentioned test.

In that case what you want is an alternate function "really_find" that
doesn't raise Not_found but Invalid_argument if the key cannot be
found.

Best,

Daniel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-27  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26 17:30 Dario Teixeira
2010-05-26 21:10 ` Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2010-05-27  3:37   ` Jacques Le Normand
2010-05-27  8:08     ` Florent Ouchet
2010-05-27  8:50       ` Eray Ozkural
2010-05-27 11:10         ` Florent Ouchet
2010-05-27  8:54       ` David Allsopp
2010-05-27  9:11         ` Mark Shinwell
2010-05-27  9:29           ` David Allsopp
2010-05-27  9:12         ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2010-05-27  9:19           ` David Allsopp
2010-05-27  9:15       ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2010-05-27 13:56     ` Hezekiah M. Carty
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-01 19:08 Peter Ronnquist
2010-05-26 16:15 Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2010-05-27  9:34 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2010-05-27 17:01 ` Richard Jones
2010-05-27 21:13   ` Dario Teixeira
2010-05-31 14:36   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-05-31 15:00     ` Florent Ouchet
2010-05-31 17:24     ` David Allsopp
2010-05-31 20:51       ` Török Edwin
2010-06-08  9:16       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-05-31 19:30     ` Nicolas Pouillard
2010-05-31 20:57       ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2010-05-31 21:42         ` blue storm
2010-05-31 19:36     ` Christophe Raffalli

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