From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA08758; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:55:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA20760 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:55:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from eris.rz.uni-saarland.de (eris.rz.uni-saarland.de [134.96.7.8]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i0THt1P26325 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:55:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from cs.uni-sb.de (cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.254.254]) by eris.rz.uni-saarland.de (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0THt1967001404 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:55:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.cs.uni-sb.de (mail.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.254.200]) by cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.11/2003091100) with ESMTP id i0THt09S014660 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:55:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from ps.uni-sb.de (grizzly.ps.uni-sb.de [134.96.186.68]) by mail.cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.11/2003073000) with ESMTP id i0THsxFA000762 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:54:59 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: email: Host grizzly.ps.uni-sb.de [134.96.186.68] claimed to be ps.uni-sb.de Received: from ps.uni-sb.de (groove.ps.uni-sb.de [134.96.186.172]) by ps.uni-sb.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0THswn2008063; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:54:58 +0100 Message-ID: <401948F2.7000500@ps.uni-sb.de> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:54:58 +0100 From: Andreas Rossberg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Trade Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml and concurrency References: <20040127063230.GA12482@inv_machine> <200401282326.i0SNQntl004612@bismarck-chet.watson.ibm.com> <97908806-5238-11D8-8975-000393B8133A@wetware.com> <4018E282.2040404@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> <401930C6.8060907@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> <40193B59.9050700@ps.uni-sb.de> <40194644.9060308@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <40194644.9060308@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; rossberg:01 rossberg:01 uni-sb:01 caml-list:01 closures:01 java's:01 ocaml's:01 closures:01 clumsy:01 uni-sb:01 darkened:01 munching:01 repetitive:01 kristian:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Martin Berger wrote: > > wouldn't you say that the lack of real closures is a consequence > of java's lack of a proper function space arrow, rather than a > separate issue? i don't see how you could have ocaml's full ---> > without real closures, but maybe i'm missing something. In Java, inner classes could give you (a clumsy form of) closures as well, but they don't (since they may not capture non-static variables). - Andreas -- Andreas Rossberg, rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we would all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners