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From: Andrew Lenharth <alenhart@cs.ohiou.edu>
To: Jon Harrop <jdh30@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] help
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:38:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040426223855.GA3179@peuter> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404261842.59208.jdh30@cam.ac.uk>

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:13:42PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Sunday 25 April 2004 1:45 pm, Henri DF wrote:
> > > I deliberately made "wnum" a reference so that it can be set:
> >
> > any reason not to make it a mutable ?
> 
> No good reason. ;)

Take a look at how it is implemented in Pervasives.
>From the manual:

type 'a ref = {
   	mutable contents : 'a;
}

So, yea, unless you like another layer of indirection, just using
mutable should save you a little bit.

Andrew

-- 
"It will work in practice, yes. But will it work in theory?"
--- a french diplomat's comment, recalled by Madeleine  Albright

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-26 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-25 16:30 mohammad siddiqui
2004-04-25  1:53 ` mohammad siddiqui
2004-04-25 12:13   ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-25 12:45     ` Henri DF
2004-04-26 19:13       ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-26 22:38         ` Andrew Lenharth [this message]
2004-04-25 16:44   ` [Caml-list] help Brian Hurt
2004-04-25 17:28   ` [Caml-list] help Matt Gushee
2004-04-25 17:06 ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-25 17:39   ` Matt Gushee
2004-04-26  0:45 ` skaller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-23  2:31 mohammad siddiqui
2004-04-23  4:17 ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-23  6:52   ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2004-04-23 15:43 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-22 23:34 mohammad siddiqui
2004-04-22 23:57 ` Karl Zilles
2004-04-16 18:04 mohammad siddiqui
2004-04-16 18:59 ` skaller
2004-04-17  0:34   ` Shawn Wagner
2004-04-08 22:57 mohammad siddiqui
2004-04-09  6:56 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2004-04-09  9:04 ` Richard Jones
2002-11-05 12:22 ÀîÒÇ
2002-11-05 13:39 ` Alessandro Baretta

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