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From: Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@pps.jussieu.fr>
To: Cedric Cellier <rixed@happyleptic.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Articles on using types for enhancing sw-quality?
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 08:51:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120409065143.GO13251@kerneis.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333949868.9770.2.camel@Nokia-N900>

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 07:37:48AM +0200, Cedric Cellier wrote:
> > - Chung-chieh Shan and Oleg's "Lightweight Static Capabilities"
> > presents several examples of phantom types and a general design method
> > to use them to enhance program safety:
> >   http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/lightweight-static-capabilities.pdf
> 
> I attempted to read this one out of curiosity,
> and it raised a question: is there a way to write
> these unsafe functions (List.Unsafe.tail/head...) in pure OCaml?

It depends on what you call "pure OCaml".  Using the evil Obj module:

let head (l : 'a list) : 'a = Obj.obj (Obj.field (Obj.repr l) 0) ;;

which relies on the underlying representation (use at your own risks) and
generates a call to caml_array_unsafe_get:
    L1: const 0
        push
        acc 1
        ccall caml_array_unsafe_get, 2
        return 1

Similarly:
let tail (l : 'a list) : 'a list = Obj.obj (Obj.field (Obj.repr l) 1) ;;

Best,
-- 
Gabriel

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-09  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-07 15:14 oliver
2012-04-07 16:45 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-04-09  5:37   ` Cedric Cellier
2012-04-09  6:51     ` Gabriel Kerneis [this message]
2012-04-09  7:11       ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-04-09 17:43   ` oliver
2012-04-08  9:46 ` Daniel Bünzli

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