Re: [Caml-list] New to OCaml: can someone explain how this code can be done better?

["Jeremy Fincher" <tweedgeezer@hotmail.com>]

Thanks!  Going through and understanding your code helped me a lot, and was 
a terrific aid in seeing the functional (rather than imperative) way of 
looping.  One question, though:

>     let explode string =
>       let rec loop i acc =
>         if i = 0 then acc
>         else let i' = i-1 in loop i' (string.[i'] :: acc)
>       in
>       loop (String.length string) []

Could this be rewritten as this, to remove the if/else? --

let explode string =
  let rec loop acc = function
    | 0 -> acc
    | i -> loop (string.[i-1] :: acc) (i-1)
  in
  loop [] (String.length string)


Thanks for your excellent examples.

Jeremy
>
>     let implode list =
>       let string = String.create (List.length list) in
>       let rec loop i = function
>         | x :: rest -> string.[i] <- x; loop (i+1) rest
>         | [] -> ()
>       in
>       loop 0 list;
>       string
>
>     let permute_string s =
>       List.map implode (permute (explode s))
>
>(* Eric Cooper, ecc@cmu.edu *)
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