From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Loup Vaillant <loup.vaillant@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Not really a bug but...
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:59:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070616155955.GA15908@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f9f8f4a0706160310m285f0b63r7e2087a31ae46671@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:10:35PM +0200, Loup Vaillant wrote:
> 2007/6/16, Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@inria.fr>:
> >Jon Harrop wrote:
> >> Any chance of changing the semantics of string literals so they aren't
> >static?
> >[...]
> >If it were done automatically, there would be a penalty for
> >the common case of immutable strings; to avoid it, you'd need to lift
> >constant literals out of abstractions, which is not very nice.
>
> By the way, why Ocaml didn't take the Java path, i.e. making truly
> immutable strings, And provide mutable string buffers as well? Any
> chance of seing someone exploring that path? (Some usefull features
> would then be fast consing and catenation, and some easier string
> sharing).
Mutable strings are useful! - I can use them as bitfields, general
data areas (for ioctl, mlock), etc See:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/hvcalls/
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-16 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-16 0:17 Jon Harrop
2007-06-16 7:30 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2007-06-16 10:02 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-06-16 10:10 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-06-16 15:59 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2007-06-16 17:01 ` skaller
2007-06-16 17:03 ` Jon Harrop
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