From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355EFBC0A for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:30:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l5G7UGKN027723 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:30:17 +0200 Received: from [192.168.0.1] (rke75-3-82-229-183-156.fbx.proxad.net [82.229.183.156]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C205A0AF; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:30:16 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46739188.5060605@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:30:16 +0200 From: Alain Frisch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Not really a bug but... References: <200706160117.45971.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: <200706160117.45971.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46739188.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; frisch:01 frisch:01 bug:01 semantics:01 literals:01 camlp:01 syntax:01 foobar:01 foobar:01 literals:01 abstractions:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 immutable:01 strings:01 Jon Harrop wrote: > Any chance of changing the semantics of string literals so they aren't static? A simple Camlp4 syntax extension is enough to turn any literal "foobar" into String.copy "foobar". (Except it doesn't work because of format strings.) If it were done automatically, there would be a penalty for the common case of immutable strings; to avoid it, you'd need to lift constant literals out of abstractions, which is not very nice. -- Alain