From: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
To: jmp@arsdigita.com (John Prevost)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Ref syntax
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 22:58:36 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012252158.WAA31733@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k88sm0nu.fsf@elbereth.pgh.arsdigita.com> from John Prevost at "Dec 22, 100 04:39:01 pm"
> >>>>> "mk" == Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> writes:
>
> mk> The only consistent syntax would be "!x <-
> mk> new_contents_of_x". Note that the revised syntax uses "x.val
> mk> <- new_contents_of_x", with x.val being equivalent to old !x
> mk> on both sides of <- and without the need of any magic syntax
> mk> for references in addition to what is available anyway for
> mk> mutable fields.
>
> Of course, in the standard syntax you can write "x.contents <- 1" in
> the same way. Though that's quite a bit more verbose.
>
> John.
This is already possible in the current version of Objective Caml.
Objective Caml version 3.00
# let x = ref 2;;
val x : int ref = {contents=2}
# x.contents;;
- : int = 2
# x.contents <- 1;;
- : unit = ()
If you don't like operators ! and :=, just don't use them, and use the
regular filed acces instead!
Merry Christmas,
Pierre Weis
INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-25 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-14 14:12 Type annotations Ohad Rodeh
2000-12-15 2:25 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-12-21 12:50 ` Ref syntax Ohad Rodeh
2000-12-22 3:29 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-12-22 8:45 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-12-23 0:30 ` John Prevost
2000-12-22 9:07 ` Pierre Weis
2000-12-22 9:30 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-12-22 14:22 ` Pierre Weis
2000-12-22 19:24 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2000-12-22 9:17 ` Pascal Brisset
2000-12-23 0:37 ` John Prevost
2000-12-22 16:40 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2000-12-23 0:39 ` John Prevost
2000-12-25 21:58 ` Pierre Weis [this message]
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