From: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
To: bpr@best.com (Brian Rogoff)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Array interface question
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:21:59 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901221921.UAA10085@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901221056370.3130-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> from "Brian Rogoff" at Jan 22, 99 11:10:40 am
> Why is there no creation function which does not take a default
> value for filling the array?
[...]
>
> -- Brian
This is due to the coexistance in Caml of polymorphism and mutable
values. The system would be unsafe if we were able to allocate
polymorphic mutable values (those mutable values could be filled
afterwards with values of unrelated types, and hence would break the
homogeneous sequence nature of arrays, and then may be read back with
types unrelated to their proper types).
Hope this helps,
Pierre Weis
INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-22 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 19:10 Brian Rogoff
1999-01-22 19:21 ` Pierre Weis [this message]
1999-01-22 20:05 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-01-23 10:47 ` Anton Moscal
1999-01-23 10:57 ` David Monniaux
1999-01-24 15:44 ` Jerome Vouillon
1999-01-24 21:36 ` Pierre Weis
1999-01-28 19:57 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-01-23 14:00 ` Size of arrays Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll
1999-01-24 22:31 ` Pierre Weis
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