From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id HAA00334; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 07:35:15 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id HAA01214 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 07:35:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA29336 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:24:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from sarg.ryerson.ca (sarg.ryerson.ca [141.117.18.117]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g25MOKf27353 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:24:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from sarg.ryerson.ca (dmason@localhost) by sarg.ryerson.ca (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g25MOFF16528; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:24:15 -0500 Message-Id: <200203052224.g25MOFF16528@sarg.ryerson.ca> To: Charles Martin cc: Christophe Raffalli , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Weak hash table In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 2002 13:40:37 PST." <5.1.0.14.0.20020305134012.0287a030@pop.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: EMH/1.10.0 SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) CLIME/1.13.6 (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2YlTj4xGyhC?=) MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 14) (Cuyahoga Valley) (alpha-redhat-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:24:15 -0500 From: Dave Mason Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk A while ago I bugged Xavier about this. He agreed it would be nice to have weak hash tables, so if anyone volunteered an implementation, I suspect it would quickly make its way into the standard library. I haven't thought hard about it, but I think it needs some additional hooks in the garbage collector. (Without even *considering* the whole heirarchy of weakness in Java!) ../Dave ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners