From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Concatenation of static strings?
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:13:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801261613.51858.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8be5ae20801241502q5190bcceje287e1f224d5648a@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 24 January 2008 23:02:48 Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> I was hoping there would be some follow up discussion on the code below,
> but haven't seen anything yet. Can someone please clarify why this is not
> considered a bug (or is it).
This is not considered a bug. String literals are static but array literals
are not.
> Given that s is locally scoped within f, I do not see why f returns
> different answers.
A static local remains the same between calls (so it is not thread-safe).
This has been discussed before several times. The reason given more making
strings static is performance.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-26 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-19 3:32 Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-01-19 6:50 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2008-01-19 7:36 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-01-19 10:55 ` David Baelde
2008-01-24 23:02 ` Ashish Agarwal
2008-01-25 1:57 ` Oliver Bandel
2008-01-25 10:47 ` Loup Vaillant
2008-01-26 13:27 ` Ashish Agarwal
2008-01-26 16:13 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-01-26 19:58 ` Oliver Bandel
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