Re: [Caml-list] Book about functional design patterns

["Quôc Peyrot" <chojin@lrde.epita.fr>]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:

> Le Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:06:51 +0200, Quôc Peyrot <chojin@lrde.epita.fr>
> a écrit :
>> It has been said multiple times on this
>> mailing list, but I think we really miss a book about these design
>> patterns and optimization tricks often specific to a given (or a set
>> of) feature (functional, lazy computations, garbage collector...).
>
> _Purely functional data structures_ by Chris Osaki might interest you.
> It's a very good book, covering lazy evaluation and persistent
> amortized data structures (among other things). Moreover, it does
> insist on optimizations (often left as exercises to the reader, with
> enough hints to be easy to figure out).

I have this book in my TOREAD list (for a long time now, my bad)
I must admit I don't use very often pure functional datastructures in  
OCaml.
My main concern with functional programing has always been the  
runtime hit
you get due to the extra memory allocations (which can be significant).

But yes, I should definitely read this book, thanks for reminding me :p

-- 
Best Regards,
Quôc