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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: "'bluestorm'" <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com>,
	"'caml-list caml-list'" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Purity and lazyness
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 16:15:03 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01d101cbb018$6038ccf0$20aa66d0$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=GOgfkJ-cZO6oi1ZgdqyfDoRzwLyMLkYsXKoNS@mail.gmail.com>

Bluestorm wrote:
> You need lazyness because you want to build a cyclic data structure.
> But is this such a good idea? In my experience, implicit cyclicity
> often raises more problems than it solves, and it is much safer to
> use an explicit indirection layer.

Don't closures often end up forming cyclic data structures on the heap that
are a good idea and don't cause problems?

Cheers,
Jon.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-09 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07 15:35 Dario Teixeira
2011-01-07 16:07 ` Damien Doligez
2011-01-07 16:38   ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2011-01-07 18:16     ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 20:22     ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 20:29       ` orbitz
2011-01-07 20:30         ` Joel Reymont
2011-01-07 20:33         ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-08  9:44     ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2011-01-07 17:21 ` Alain Frisch
2011-01-07 17:46   ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-07 18:11 ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 18:52   ` Brian Hurt
2011-01-07 19:32     ` Petter Urkedal
2011-01-07 20:25     ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-09 16:11     ` Jon Harrop
2011-01-10  6:27       ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 19:17 ` Florian Weimer
     [not found]   ` <AANLkTikxCSQ+0XkOmSVDb3EWq_2oQ0pac3bDgc7f7jq+@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-07 20:52     ` bluestorm
2011-01-09 16:15       ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2011-01-08  0:26   ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2011-01-08  9:28     ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-08 22:47     ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-09 10:00       ` Petter Urkedal

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