From: William Chesters <williamc@dai.ed.ac.uk>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: Map is not tail recursive
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:49:15 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901121149.LAA00641@toy.william.bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990111120358.25340@pauillac.inria.fr>
Xavier Leroy writes:
> I would also contend that if your program routinely manipulate
> 100000-element lists, then you're probably using the wrong data
> structure anyway. But that's a different issue.
Good, I was hoping you would say that! Just because things are
traditionally done in a certain way in FP textbooks doesn't mean it
actually makes sense to do them that way in real life.
People hardly ever use linked lists in C++ or Java, and the reasons
why mostly hold good in ocaml.
However, implementing a polymorphic `vector' (resizable array) in
ocaml requires a small amount of fancy footwork because of the lack of
a universal `null' value ... there might be a case for implementing
this as part of the underlying language.
French-like paraphrase:
Les livres sur PF utilises exclusivement la linked list, mai pour la
plupart des applications cette structure n'est pas la plus efficiente.
Alors on ne l'utilise presque point en C++ ou Java. Mais ce n'est pas
100% facile á faire une type `vector' en ocaml, parce ce que ocaml
manque un valeur "null".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-12 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-10 10:49 Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll
1999-01-11 11:03 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-01-12 11:49 ` William Chesters [this message]
1999-01-11 18:51 David McClain
1999-01-13 8:47 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
1999-01-12 12:06 Marc Rouaix
1999-01-13 17:40 Marc Rouaix
1999-01-14 3:49 David McClain
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