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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Feature proposal: improved compare
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:12:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610022212.40035.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1490a380610021336j380f9075u5544da1698295cf@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 02 October 2006 21:36, Tom wrote:
> I believe the compare function from standard library should be extended to
> allow total ordering of functional types (= closures). I suggest something
> like...

I believe that won't work with OCaml's GC because it contains a copying 
collector, obviating a total ordering over pairs of pointers.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
Objective CAML for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-02 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-02 20:36 Tom
2006-10-02 21:12 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2006-10-03  8:05   ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2006-10-05 14:08     ` Tom

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