From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
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 01:33:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708150133.23573.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070814230940.GB11589@takhisis.invalid>
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 00:09:40 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 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.
Yes. Laterally, the point can be addressed by making library writers aware of
the points that I made. I think Markus Mottl once said that all libraries
should include phantom types...
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 0:42 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
2007-08-15 0:33 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
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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