From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: immutable strings (Re: [Caml-list] Array 4 MB size limit)
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 23:11:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060520211117.GA2670@first.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605192103250.10710@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:06:27PM -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 19 May 2006, Jon Harrop wrote:
>
> >Agreed. Should OCaml's successor have extensible arrays with 64-bit lengths
> >and strings as char arrays?
>
> Why not just run Ocaml as a 64-bit app on a 64-bit OS?
>
> We I designing a language today, I'd have 63-bit array lengths- of course,
> I'd do it by not bothering to support 32-bit systems...
>
> As for strings, I'd be inclined to make them immutable- the correct way to
> manipulate strings is with regular expressions. But I'm widely
> acknowledged to be an extremist.
IMHO strings should be possibly made immutable by using the "immutable"
keyword, which is the opposite of the "mutable" keyword as it is used for
records. So the user/programmer can chose the kind of strings he7she wants.
Ciao,
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-20 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 18:12 Array 4 MB size limit akalin
2006-05-15 18:22 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Cannasse
2006-05-15 20:32 ` Damien Doligez
2006-05-15 21:27 ` akalin
2006-05-15 22:51 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-16 0:48 ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-16 9:57 ` Damien Doligez
2006-05-16 15:10 ` Markus Mottl
2006-05-16 8:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2006-05-16 8:20 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2006-05-19 17:13 ` Xavier Leroy
2006-05-19 5:57 ` Frederick Akalin
2006-05-19 6:21 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-19 12:15 ` Jon Harrop
2006-05-19 19:36 ` akalin
2006-05-19 20:17 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-19 16:28 ` Jozef Kosoru
2006-05-19 20:08 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-19 21:26 ` Jon Harrop
2006-05-20 1:06 ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-20 18:32 ` brogoff
2006-05-20 21:29 ` immutable strings II ([Caml-list] Array 4 MB size limit) Oliver Bandel
2006-05-22 22:09 ` Aleksey Nogin
2006-05-20 21:11 ` Oliver Bandel [this message]
2006-05-25 4:32 ` immutable strings (Re: " Stefan Monnier
2006-05-25 5:56 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2006-05-25 7:23 ` j h woodyatt
2006-05-25 10:22 ` Jon Harrop
2006-05-25 19:28 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-25 11:14 ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-25 19:42 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-26 6:51 ` Alain Frisch
2006-05-25 17:31 ` Aleksey Nogin
2006-05-25 19:54 ` Martin Jambon
2006-05-25 11:18 ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-25 17:34 ` Aleksey Nogin
2006-05-25 18:44 ` Tom
2006-05-25 23:00 ` Jon Harrop
2006-05-25 23:15 ` Martin Jambon
2006-05-20 0:57 ` [Caml-list] Array 4 MB size limit Brian Hurt
2006-05-20 1:17 ` Frederick Akalin
2006-05-20 1:52 ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-20 9:08 ` Jozef Kosoru
2006-05-20 10:12 ` skaller
2006-05-20 11:06 ` Jozef Kosoru
2006-05-20 12:02 ` skaller
2006-05-20 21:42 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-21 1:24 ` skaller
2006-05-21 14:10 ` Oliver Bandel
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605200847530.10710@localhost.localdomain>
2006-05-20 19:52 ` Jozef Kosoru
2006-05-20 21:45 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-21 9:26 ` Richard Jones
[not found] ` <5CE30707-5DCE-4A22-970E-A49C36F9C901@akalin.cx>
2006-05-22 10:40 ` Richard Jones
2006-05-20 10:51 ` Jozef Kosoru
2006-05-20 14:22 ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-20 18:41 ` j h woodyatt
2006-05-20 19:37 ` Jon Harrop
2006-05-20 20:47 ` Jozef Kosoru
2006-05-26 18:34 ` Ken Rose
2006-05-20 22:07 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-20 15:15 ` Don Syme
2006-05-20 22:15 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-21 1:25 ` skaller
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