From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB0DBC88 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 03:55:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j172toDa004773 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 03:55:51 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp212-197.lns2.syd3.internode.on.net [203.122.212.197]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j172tjBY048810; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:25:45 +1030 (CST) Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <200502070224.23304.jon@jdh30.plus.com> References: <200502070224.23304.jon@jdh30.plus.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1107744944.6363.422.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 07 Feb 2005 13:55:44 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4206D8B6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 bindings:01 hashtbl:01 glebe:01 ...:98 061:98 nsw:01 imperative:01 scope:01 checking:01 snail:02 2037:02 functional:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:24, Jon Harrop wrote: > I often exploit persistence when writing interpreters in a functional style, > to handle bindings in an inner scope. Note that more intelligent people use > an imperative style and the seemingly-quirky Hashtbl for this... .. actually I use a list of Hashtbls .. -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net