From: jeanmarc.eber@lexifi.com
To: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
Cc: ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] On the equality of functional values
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:34:13 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035794053.3dbcf6850fd90@imp.pro.proxad.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DBCD600.2000307@baretta.com>
documentation from pervasives.mli (3.06):
Look, in particular, at the use of the word "may":
external ( = ) : 'a -> 'a -> bool = "%equal"
(** [e1 = e2] tests for structural equality of [e1] and [e2].
Mutable structures (e.g., references and arrays) are equal
if and only if their current contents are structurally equal,
even if the two mutable objects are not the same physical object.
Equality between functional values may raise [Invalid_argument].
Equality between cyclic data structures may not terminate. *)
Jean-Marc Eber
Quoting Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>:
>
>
> David Monniaux wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> >
> >
> > If I remember well, = is implemented by doing first a == (equality of
> > pointers) test, and returning true if that test succeeds; otherwise,
> > the more complex recursive equality test is performed, which fails
> with
> > an exception if it encounters functional values.
> >
> > So if x and y are the same closure, x=y succeeds and yields the true
> > value. Otherwise, it throws an exception.
>
> This is what I suspected. I wonder if this behavior conforms
> to specification, or if it is an incidental concequence of
> the implementation of (=).
>
> Alex
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-28 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-27 14:10 Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-27 15:34 ` David Brown
2002-10-27 17:58 ` David Monniaux
2002-10-28 6:15 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-28 8:34 ` jeanmarc.eber [this message]
2002-10-29 10:32 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-27 18:02 ` Remi VANICAT
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