From: Francois Pottier <Francois.Pottier@inria.fr>
To: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher L Conway <cconway@cs.nyu.edu>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Immutable cyclic data structures via a
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:10:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081214091045.GA2341@yquem.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494465C2.2000807@gmail.com>
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 07:47:46PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote:
> ExtLib (and thus batteries) uses your unmute (called [inj]) for
> converting a mutable list into the normal immutable list. The definition:
>
> external inj : 'a mut_list -> 'a list = "%identity"
>
> As always, be *very* careful when using this kind of type system voodoo,
> but it can work under certain circumstances.
This is, in principle, unsound. The compiler could (if it were more agressive)
assume that a value of type 'a list is unaffected by a function call, whereas,
if the list is really mutable, it could actually be written to by the call.
With the current ocaml compiler, this might be okay, but I'd be wary of
building this kind of code into a library.
Best regards,
--
François Pottier
Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
http://cristal.inria.fr/~fpottier/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-14 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-13 21:45 Christopher L Conway
2008-12-13 23:30 ` [Caml-list] " Jeremy Yallop
2008-12-13 23:43 ` Jeremy Yallop
2008-12-14 1:47 ` Edgar Friendly
2008-12-14 9:10 ` Francois Pottier [this message]
2008-12-14 14:29 ` blue storm
2008-12-14 20:06 ` Richard Jones
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