From: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
To: "Krishnaswami, Neel" <neelk@cswcasa.com>
Cc: OCaml Mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Breaking out of iterative loops
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:34:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020502133452.GE2033@kiefer.ai.univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1E4D3274D57D411BE8400D0B783FF32A8D73E@exchange1.cswv.com>
On Thu, 02 May 2002, Krishnaswami, Neel wrote:
> Markus Mottl [mailto:markus@oefai.at] wrote:
> > I second this. Does anybody here really benefit from such cyclic
> > structures?
>
> Somewhat to my surprise, I can answer yes:
[snip]
> | Rec(name, n, body) ->
> let rec c = Closure(n, body, r')
> and r' = (name, c) :: r in
> c
> Using cyclic structures means I don't have to dink around with
> mutable references and all the headaches they bring, and so it's
> very handy when prototyping.
Ok, I agree that this is a nice solution. It's still funny that all
people mentioned environment handling with recursion as only example.
I am not sure whether this is justification enough to have this extra
feature in the language...
Regards,
Markus Mottl
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Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-02 13:15 Krishnaswami, Neel
2002-05-02 13:34 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
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2002-04-30 20:27 Vincent Foley
2002-04-30 21:38 ` Johan Baltié
2002-05-02 0:57 ` John Max Skaller
2002-05-02 2:18 ` John Prevost
2002-05-02 8:33 ` Markus Mottl
2002-05-02 9:14 ` Francois Pottier
2002-05-02 9:50 ` Alain Frisch
2002-05-02 14:35 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-05-02 15:40 ` John Max Skaller
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