From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Efficiency of let/and
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:31:55 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509250826470.9226@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Say I have two variables I want to set- variable a to the value expr1 and
variable b to the value expr2. The two expressions are pure (no side
effects), and neither one depends upon the other (neither expr1 nor expr2
contain either a or b as a value), so they can be evaluated in either
order or in parallel with no harm. With expressions like these, I've
gotten into the habit of using let/and to express the parallelism, that is
I go:
let a = expr1
and b = expr2
in
...
rather than:
let a = expr1 in
let b = expr2 in
So my question is: is there any value (other than the documentation value)
in doing this?
Just wondering.
Brian
next reply other threads:[~2005-09-25 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-25 13:31 Brian Hurt [this message]
2005-09-25 14:47 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-09-26 4:32 ` Ant: " Martin Chabr
2005-09-26 5:24 ` Fernando Alegre
2005-09-26 5:56 ` William Lovas
2005-09-26 7:17 ` Bill Wood
2005-09-26 20:59 ` Ant: " Martin Chabr
2005-09-26 13:22 ` Brian Hurt
2005-09-26 16:05 ` Ant: " Stefan Monnier
2005-09-26 16:30 ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2005-09-27 5:52 ` skaller
2005-09-27 13:06 ` Brian Hurt
2005-09-27 13:24 ` Alan Falloon
2005-09-27 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-27 16:11 ` Brian Hurt
2005-09-27 5:32 ` skaller
2005-09-27 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-26 17:04 ` Ant: [Caml-list] " Mackenzie Straight
2005-09-26 17:05 ` Marius Nita
2005-09-26 17:36 ` David McClain
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