I have a very basic OCaml program that reads two lines and adds them to a tuple. I expect that this tuple contains two strings in the order user inputs them (s1, s2) but strings placed in reversed order (s2, s1). Could someone explain this behavior or point me to the docs? Thanks. let () = (read_l…

Hello Andrei, The order of evaluation of sub-expressions making up a tuple expression is not specified: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/expr.html#sec151 Most of the time, it does not matter, but typically, if the sub-expressions do side effects, you have to explicit the order of evalua…

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bcc32 February 2, 2020, 6:48pm 5

That sounds super interesting! Do you have any more information on how the optimization worked?

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