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From: Chris Gorski <cgorski@cgorski.org>
To: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] const equivalent for mutable types?
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:45:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <410BDABB.2060003@cgorski.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040731103412.GA11964@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at>

Markus Mottl wrote:

> No, you'd need an abstract module for this to hide the concrete
> representation.  This is actually good SE-practice.
> 
> You can do this very conveniently using so-called phantom types.  For the
> special case of references, here is an example that implements ones,
> which can be made constant:

Everyone's responses were helpful, and this is exactly what I was 
looking for.  Thank you.

-- 
Chris Gorski - http://www.cgorski.org

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-31 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-31  8:56 Christopher A. Gorski
2004-07-31  9:24 ` Jean-Marie Gaillourdert
2004-07-31 10:24   ` Jean-Marie Gaillourdert
2004-07-31 10:50   ` Markus Mottl
2004-07-31 14:31     ` Brian Hurt
2004-07-31 15:51       ` Markus Mottl
2004-07-31 17:05       ` skaller
2004-07-31 10:34 ` Markus Mottl
2004-07-31 13:44   ` Jon Harrop
2004-07-31 16:31     ` [Caml-list] Phantom types Markus Mottl
2004-08-23  9:49       ` Jon Harrop
2004-08-23 12:25         ` [Caml-list] Why does ocaml use custom buffering? Daan Leijen
2004-08-23 15:16         ` [Caml-list] Phantom types Jon Harrop
2004-08-27  9:03           ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-08-25 21:03         ` brogoff
2004-07-31 16:35     ` [Caml-list] const equivalent for mutable types? skaller
2004-07-31 17:23       ` [Caml-list] Functional arrays Jon Harrop
2004-07-31 18:45         ` skaller
2004-08-02  5:07           ` brogoff
2004-08-02  7:45         ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-05 16:42           ` Daniel Ortmann
2004-08-05 17:02             ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-05 17:16             ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-07-31 17:45   ` Chris Gorski [this message]
2004-07-31 14:11 ` [Caml-list] const equivalent for mutable types? Brian Hurt

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