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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] class variables?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:40:32 +0100
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> Hi,
>
> I'm considering using ocaml for a project I'm planning.  I plan to use the
> object-oriented features of ocaml extensively.  I was wondering: is there
> any way to get immutable class fields that are shared by all members of
the
> class?  I was thinking of a list of strings, and I don't want to have to
> have the list duplicated for every instance of the class.

Maybe you can try using 'ref'

let strlist = ref []
...
strlist := ["a";"b";"c"] (* change inner value *)

then you can read what's "inside" strlist using !strlist

Warp

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