Re: [Caml-list] About Obj (was Recursive lists)

[Greg K <lists@gak.com>]

GCaml? Are you saying that the GCaml extensions are in the INRIA queue for 
some future version of OCaml? I was under the impression that it had fallen 
off the active list when Jun Furuse left for Tokyo. Is that not true?

Greg

At 09:46 AM 10/11/2004, brogoff wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, james woodyatt wrote:
> > On 11 Oct 2004, at 06:38, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
> > > Jean-Christophe Filliatre wrote [quite sensibly]:
> > >>
> > >> [...]
> > >> This shouldn't be advised, and not even posted on this list.
> > >
> > > And how do you write a tail recursive map doing only one structure
> > > traversal (which is important with the penalty for memory access) on
> > > immutable list without the Obj module ?
> >
> > By using a more appropriate data structure, e.g. a lazy list.  It's a
> > pay-me-now-or-pay-me-later sort of game you're playing here.
>
>Count me among those entirely unswayed by this.
>
>You could also respectfully request that the implementors provide a safe
>way to get this well known optimization WITHOUT having to resort to Obj
>usage, and, until it is provided, use the safe solution provided a few times
>already (and used in ExtLib I believe).
>
>When I asked one of the implementors about this, I received the response that
>this would be nice to have but not at the head of the queue in terms of
>upcoming desireable features. That seems like a reasonable response, 
>considering
>that there are a number of not so bad workarounds, including use of Obj. I'd
>rather have GCaml extensions sooner anyways...
>
>I think Clean now provides some solution for the tail recursion modulo cons
>stuff. Anyone know other language/implementations which do?
>
>-- Brian
>
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