"ocaml_beginners"::[] iterate in ocaml

Is there a built-in o'caml equivalent of haskell's iterate function which applies a function to a number repeatedly as in f ( f ( .....(f x)..)
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:39:07AM -0700, Logesh Pillay wrote:
> Is there a built-in o'caml equivalent of haskell's iterate function
> which applies a function to a number repeatedly as in f ( f ( .....(f
> x)..)

I don't think there's a built-in function, but it's very simple to
write one.

On the other hand, common forms of iteration are often captured more
elegantly by functions like List.map, List.fold_left and List.iter.

Rich.

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