From: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@fmf.uni-lj.si>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Cc: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How important are circular lists/recursive objects?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:00:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4611FBAB.1020508@fmf.uni-lj.si> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704021949590.5725@localhost>
Brian Hurt wrote:
> Does anyone actually use this construct, and if so, for what?
When I teach my students "theory" of programming languages, we write
interpreters for mini languages. The recursive data structures are used
to create closures of recursive functions, environments that contain
mutually recursive values, closures of objects, etc. Life would be very
hard without this feature.
Andrej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-03 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 23:55 Brian Hurt
2007-04-03 6:24 ` Gleb Alexeyev
2007-04-03 6:58 ` [Caml-list] " Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2007-04-03 7:00 ` Andrej Bauer [this message]
2007-04-03 12:09 ` Jon Harrop
2007-04-03 13:31 ` Bruno De Fraine
2007-04-04 23:28 ` Brian Hurt
2007-04-05 0:51 ` Jon Harrop
2007-04-03 12:49 ` Philippe Wang
2007-04-04 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-04 5:28 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-10-04 17:48 ` Fabrice Marchant
2007-10-04 20:39 ` skaller
2007-10-04 21:36 ` rossberg
2007-10-04 22:25 ` skaller
2007-10-05 10:42 ` Dominique Martinet
2007-10-08 9:57 ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-04-04 8:45 ` Don Syme
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