From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F621BBC4 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:39:58 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Al0BAGm81UnUnwdkimdsb2JhbACCIZQBAQEBCgkMBw8GuRSEDwY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.39,319,1235948400"; d="scan'208";a="23891417" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 03 Apr 2009 16:39:58 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoAFAOq81UnUnw4S/2dsb2JhbACCIc1chA8G Received: from pih-relay05.plus.net ([212.159.14.18]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 03 Apr 2009 15:39:58 +0100 Received: from [87.112.226.235] (helo=leper.local) by pih-relay05.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LpkYn-0002qS-7C for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:39:57 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strings Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:46:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200904031256.33357.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904031546.14071.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 7de875e32fc7c72be3cf44da0e6daad9 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 translating:01 non-trivial:01 ocaml's:01 byte:01 byte:01 arrays:01 2009:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 immutable:01 strings:01 strings:01 string:02 On Friday 03 April 2009 15:18:51 Ashish Agarwal wrote: > > I found immutable strings to be a PITA > > in what way? Just because my OCaml programs were mutating strings and translating that into F# is non-trivial if the string is shared or big. In essence, I've always used OCaml's strings as a more efficient byte array. In fact, the best translation to F# is often to use byte arrays as a replacement for strings. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e