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Reputation: 847

Ocaml- Iterating through a tuple

Just picked up Ocaml and have been looking into recursive iteration and all that. I was trying to iterate through a tuple but got stumped. Let's say I want to iterate through a tuple and divide each element by half, how do I go about doing it? Especially if the size of the tuple is not known but simply given as a variable? Now if i knew it was a 2 element tuple I could do 

let rec divide n = match with (a,b) -> ...

So this is where I'm stuck. How do I figure out what to match the argument with? I know tuples are fixed once created so I can't modify it in place so then how would I go about creating a new tuple that contains elements from the original tuple/2. Any help appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1906

Answers (1)

Jeffrey Scofield
Jeffrey Scofield

Reputation: 66803

John Coleman is correct, there's no way to write OCaml code that's polymorphic over tuples of different sizes. You can write code that works for a certain size of tuple. You can also write code that works for any number of values of a given type--for that, you would use a list rather than a tuple.

Most likely you can get your code working using lists.

Upvotes: 3

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