From: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] What is the safe subset of OCaml?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:19:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104121819.p3CIJlw8019462@outgoing.mit.edu> (raw)
What must be removed from OCaml to get a safe subset of the language?
There is a proof that a smaller language is safe (Rémy 2000). I don't
know the full difference between that smaller language and the one we
have today. In the standard library, Obj, Marshal, and everything with
unsafe in the name are unsafe. External functions are unsafe. Programs
may overflow the system stack. Am I missing anything?
My recollection from a previous discussion is that polymorphic
exceptions are safe in programs but may crash the pretty printer
in the toplevel.
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2011-04-12 18:19 John Carr [this message]
2011-04-12 18:21 ` Raoul Duke
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