I'm glad this group was formed. I have been one of the (many?) people who read nearly every message of the main list but never posted once. Looking forward...
Hi, I was wondering how I would go about adding functions that take no arguments into a list? Can it be done? If not why not? Thanks in advance, Matthew...
Matthew O'Connor
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Feb 7, 2002 5:03 am
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1) A list of functions exists (well, it's functional programming after all) # let fof x y = x*y;; val fof : int -> int -> int = <fun> # let fof1 x y = x+y;; ...
stalkern2
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Feb 7, 2002 7:38 am
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I'm using Ocaml 3.04. I found this at http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/Changes ========================================================= - Libraries (.cma and .cmxa...
stalkern2
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Feb 7, 2002 10:39 am
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I'm not sure what you meant. All functions must take parameters. Do you mean a function that takes parameters, but just wasn't given any? Then make sure all...
... even simpler : you don't have to make new toplevel : $ ocaml Objective Caml version 3.04 # #load "graphics.cma";; # Graphics.open_graph "";; .... -- Rémi...
Matthew O'Connor <matthew.oconnor@...> schrieb am 07.02.2002, ... I think I have understood your problem. In other languages, functions usually take n...
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Feb 7, 2002 12:17 pm
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Hey Gerd, I'm a beginner so slow down a bit ;-)) You should say not that "Every function takes exactly one argument and returns exactly one result value." but...
stalkern2
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Feb 7, 2002 3:21 pm
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... Well, in fact, what Gerd wrote is exactly true, and I think that understanding his statement a little more deeply will result in a greater appreciation of...
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Feb 7, 2002 5:24 pm
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... I apologize for my bad grammar! I meant: Any function that takes more than one argument can be thought of as a function that takes the first argument and...
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Feb 7, 2002 5:34 pm
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Hi. I am trying to get my feet wet with C code, but I find the docs on confusing. So I hope someone will give me feedback... I'm trying to write my own...
Does this mean that every language where one function can be written with several arguments also accepts partial applications? (f x) seem to be a partial...
stalkern2
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Feb 7, 2002 6:12 pm
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... I'm not sure, but I think that partial application is a property of most (all?) functional languages, but it is definately not a feature of most imperative...
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Feb 7, 2002 6:30 pm
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Why does #let oc = open_out_gen [Open_creat; Open_trunc; Open_text] 664 "./bofcopy.txt";; val oc : out_channel = <abstr> create a file with permissions...
stalkern2
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Feb 7, 2002 6:50 pm
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What is refactoring? I didn't know this word, so I looked for it and I found ...
stalkern2
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Feb 7, 2002 6:58 pm
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... The "refactoring guy", Martin Fowler also has a website: http://www.refactoring.com/ cheers, doug...
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Feb 7, 2002 7:03 pm
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... [...] ... I believe that you have made a mistake in the radix of your input! You put: 664, which is a decimal number. You want 0o664, which is an octal...
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Feb 7, 2002 7:41 pm
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Hi. I have some problems with the type system, and whether to use "plain" types and functions, or the OO approach. The (toy) problem I chose to teach myself...
Henrik Motakef
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Feb 7, 2002 8:11 pm
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... you could use the polymorphic variant : type literal = [ `Literal of string ] type resource = [ `Resource of string ... type node = [ `Resource of string ...
Remi VANICAT <vanicat+egroups@...> writes: Thanks for your reply. ... Am I right thinking that "`Literal of string" would translate to ...
Henrik Motakef
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Feb 7, 2002 9:23 pm
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... no exactly : # let x = `Literal "foo";; val x : [> `Literal of string] = `Literal "foo" this mean that x ... yes you do. A class must not have any open...
Hi, Firstly thanks to everyone for there responses on my first posting. They were very helpful and I am glad that this mail list was created. Coming from a C++...
Matthew O'Connor
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Feb 7, 2002 10:14 pm
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... very easily, for example : class ['a] myList (x : 'a) (f : 'a -> unit) = object var an_obj = x method apply () = f x end -- Rémi Vanicat ...
... I just re-read the chapter on polymorphic variants in the manual (I had a feeling like "Aah - now I get what they are talking about" - but I guess it won't...
Henrik Motakef
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Feb 7, 2002 10:29 pm
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Thankyou Gerd, Your response was exactly what I was looking for. You understood my question perfectly. Thanks to everyone else for Cheers, Matthew...
Matthew O'Connor
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Feb 7, 2002 10:39 pm
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... not exactly. You really add an information, the fact that statement is a parametrized class, depending of three type (something very similar to template in...
... the interesting thing about the [> `Literal of string] is that x can be use everywhere one is looking for a `Literal of string, even if it is a closed type...
I think you are on the right way. ... I expected that you find that surprising. Before I comment on your examples, I want to point out that there is a...
Gerd Stolpmann
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Feb 7, 2002 11:14 pm
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Yes! what you sent is straigth and simple (and gives 0o664 permissions) and I don't mind that String.create comes from outside the standard library because I...
