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From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@bononia.it>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Weak hash table for attaching extra data to an object
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:09:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070814230940.GB11589@takhisis.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708142144.15414.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:44:15PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> I think this is an important design choice that people should be aware of when 
> they first write the code. If you think the product types inside your expr 

Richard's point was precisely about *not* being able to change such a
design choice. There can be a lot of reasons for that, for example (even
though this was not Richard's situation AFAICT) not being the author of
the data structure you want to decorate.

IOW: the original question is still valid.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what?
zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/
(15:56:48)  Zack: e la demo dema ?    /\    All one has to do is hit the
(15:57:15)  Bac: no, la demo scema    \/    right keys at the right time


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-14 10:15 Richard Jones
2007-08-14 11:08 ` [Caml-list] " Thomas Fischbacher
2007-08-14 11:48   ` Till Varoquaux
2007-08-14 20:44   ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-14 23:09     ` Stefano Zacchiroli [this message]
2007-08-15  0:33       ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-15 12:33         ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-16 14:54         ` Markus Mottl
2007-08-15  1:28     ` skaller
2007-08-15 19:04     ` Richard Jones
2007-08-16 16:17       ` Some observations and measurements with using Weak Hashtable to annotate a tree (was: Re: [Caml-list] Weak hash table for attaching extra data to an object) Richard Jones
2007-08-14 16:22 ` [Caml-list] Weak hash table for attaching extra data to an object Richard Jones
2007-08-14 23:24   ` Till Varoquaux
2007-08-14 23:35   ` Fernando Alegre
2007-08-15  7:59     ` Richard Jones

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