Re: Snd question

[Julian Brown <brown@cs.bris.ac.uk>]

On 2005-08-16, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:41 -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
>> Anu Engineer wrote:
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>>  > Please forgive me if my question is very na=C3=AFve, I am very new to=20
>> Ocaml. I was
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>>  > wondering why snd returns an  error when I use it with more than 2=20
>> elements, why
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>>  > not return the rest of the list when I apply to something larger than=20
>> a pair ?
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>> Your question shows your misunderstanding: snd operates on tuples, not=20
>> lists.=20
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> I think the original question really meant:
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> Why aren't "fst" and "snd" properly generic??
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> For example this simply *should* work:
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> 	snd (1,2,3)

What's wrong with arrays (or lists, for that matter), if you want to do
this type of operation?

Julian