Hello to everybody I have just finished putting online a bunch of tutorials either by me or (mostly) by Stefano Zacchiroli. You can find them under the name...
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Johann Spies
jspies@...
Apr 2, 2003 9:50 am
... Thank you for the effort you put in to help others like me. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie,...
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billspight
Apr 3, 2003 7:19 pm
Hi! Using OCamlWin I tried entering the following from the Chailloux, Manoury, Pagano book, and got these responses. # let from_rgb (c : Graphics.color) = let...
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Issac Trotts
issac_trotts
Apr 3, 2003 10:11 pm
How about #load "graphics.cma"? Issac...
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Bill Spight
billspight
Apr 3, 2003 11:10 pm
Dear Issac, ... That works. :-) Many thanks, Bill __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online,...
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Daniel Andor
daniel_andor
Apr 4, 2003 12:24 am
Hi, I'm wondering about implementation of dynamic programming algorithms in OCaml -- essentially, how does it relate to recursion? Does anyone have a small...
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Manos Renieris
er@...
Apr 4, 2003 12:47 am
... Using the imperative features of Ocaml, dynamic programming algorithms can be copied almost exactly from standard table-filling pseudocode. The memoization...
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james woodyatt
dr_strychnine
Apr 4, 2003 1:25 am
... Recursion is just the traditional pure functional way of achieving what imperative programmers use loop constructs to do. The "dynamic programming...
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lambdawannabe
Apr 4, 2003 1:17 pm
Hello Everyone! I made a program that contains a lot of Printf's to a file. While programming i did a lot of (camlp4r syntax) do { ... }. This is a very...
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Stalkern 2
stalkern2
Apr 4, 2003 1:58 pm
... Do a lot of Format.sprintf instead and fetch the strings around in a functional way, ouputting it only at a key-passage that you can control. Imperative...
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lambdawannabe
Apr 5, 2003 6:04 pm
Hi Ernesto, I can't seem to get it working by using Format.sprintf while Format.fprintf works. How do i keep the "formatting stream" when i use sprintf? ...
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Stalkern 2
stalkern2
Apr 5, 2003 10:41 pm
... Hi, I have stopped developing Camlp4 since Daniel De Rauglaudre, the inventor of Camlp4, broke with Ocaml and so Camlp4 seems to be unmantained at present....
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Remi Vanicat
dl_ens
Apr 5, 2003 11:52 pm
... This is false. bug fix are still apply to camlp4, even after Daniel De Rauglaudre broke with the rest of the team... The only problem may be that as none...
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Remi Vanicat
dl_ens
Apr 6, 2003 12:28 am
... this have nothing to do with camlp4. This a type thing, not a lexical/syntaxical thing : # Format.sprintf;; - : ('a, unit, string) format -> 'a = <fun> its...
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Stalkern 2
stalkern2
Apr 6, 2003 11:44 am
... OK, that's good to hear. Who's the current mantainer BTW? Do you know whether Camlp4 will be part of the next core distribution? T I A Ernesto...
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Nicolas Cannasse
ncannasse
Apr 7, 2003 1:11 am
... whether ... I'm pretty sure it will. Nicolas Cannasse...
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DUBOIS Fabrice FTRD/D...
fabrice.dubois@...
Apr 10, 2003 10:42 am
Hi all, There's something I don't wonder about with that "Str.global_substitute" function. Here's the signature: val global_substitute : regexp -> (string ->...
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DUBOIS Fabrice FTRD/D...
fabrice.dubois@...
Apr 10, 2003 10:44 am
Sorry, in my previous message, you must read "There's something I ___DO___ wonder about..." :-) ... De : DUBOIS Fabrice FTRD/DTL/LAN Envoyé : jeudi 10 avril...
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Remi Vanicat
dl_ens
Apr 10, 2003 11:31 am
... well, you can easily find it by using the functions matched_string, match_beginning, match_end, matched_group, group_beginning, group_end. [...] -- Rémi...
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Nicolas Cannasse
ncannasse
Apr 11, 2003 1:48 am
... WHOLE TEXT ("s") to that function. ... instead! Creating the substring has as cost, and for example sometimes you don't care about which substring is...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Apr 16, 2003 7:10 pm
... Good point!! For bonus points: if you can come up with a generic functor for a few dynamic programming approaches (such as filling a 2d table, etc.) then...
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Walter C. Reel III
waltercreel
Apr 17, 2003 6:14 am
I have a little learning program does simple processing on a report style file. I build a list using the 'input_line input_channel' in a recursive function...
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Didier Le Botlan
lebotlan
Apr 17, 2003 8:56 am
... Probably, but you WANT to use exceptions. (As far as I know, it is the Right Way to read a file). ... In OCaml you are welcome to use exceptions as much as...
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DUBOIS Fabrice FTRD/D...
fabrice.dubois@...
Apr 17, 2003 9:24 am
Yes, exception handling is really clean is OCaml. Too often, exceptions are considered synonyms of "nasty error " or "imminent-crash" indicators. But in fact,...
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Stalkern 2
stalkern2
Apr 17, 2003 9:38 am
... Use exceptions, but be aware both of the fact that try...with... constructs break tail-recursiveness, and of the kind of incorrect nesting described below...
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Apr 17, 2003 11:52 am
... severe performance penalty: each activation record gets code for unrolling exceptions IIRC -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@...> Comp. Sci....
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Eray Ozkural
examachine
Apr 17, 2003 11:54 am
... For functional code right now I'm using haskell style type 'a maybe = None | Just of 'a -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@...> Comp. Sci. Dept.,...
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Stalkern 2
stalkern2
Apr 17, 2003 1:09 pm
... You know that's like 'a option in Ocaml, don't you Ernesto...
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Walter C. Reel III
waltercreel
Apr 17, 2003 2:18 pm
... There's a lot of overhead associated to C++ exception (so much as to cause Trolltech Inc. to not use them in their Qt product, e.g. the --no-g++-exceptions...
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Walter C. Reel III
waltercreel
Apr 17, 2003 2:18 pm
Wow... I'm certainly getting a lot of interesting input. Thanks everyone! What if the recursive function is constructing a return? Like a 'val :: mk_more_rec...
