From: Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>
To: Ram Bhamidipaty <ramb@sonic.net>
Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] beginner needs help creating a dynamically resizable array
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:58:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031002065815.GA3921@roke.freak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16251.48822.166307.867159@oak.ramandgita.com>
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:59:18PM -0700, Ram Bhamidipaty wrote:
> I am trying to create a dynamically resizable array.
[...]
> let resize dyn_array_ref new_size =
[...]
> The problem I am running into is that I don't know how to create a new
> larger array of the same time as the original array. The only two
> choices that I can think of are: 1. Somehow store the type of the
> array in the record or 2. Somehow get the array element type from the
> "buf" array in the record.
>
> Unfortunately I have no idea about how to do either 1 or 2.
You can fill your array with *value* buf.{0}. You don't need its
type. This will present some odds for the GC, but if it's for educational
purposes then it's OK. The other way is Obj.magic trickery...
> I know there is atleast one package/module that provides this
> functionality. But I don't want to use someone elses code - I am
> trying to learn OCaml and I think this would be a good thing to do
> with my own code.
...and for this reason I personally don't think it's best example to
learn OCaml on.
--
: Michal Moskal :: http://www.kernel.pl/~malekith : GCS {C,UL}++++$ a? !tv
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-02 5:59 Ram Bhamidipaty
2003-10-02 6:58 ` Michal Moskal [this message]
2003-10-02 7:26 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-10-02 9:58 ` Markus Mottl
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