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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
Cc: ocaml-core@googlegroups.com, Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>,
	 Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] Core Suite 109.11.00 released + ocaml_plugin
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:41:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <66F3A9513D1E49B8AB50EC9005C7C6BD@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A8BD8AAF-DB07-4ED7-88E7-5B78588342C5@recoil.org>

Le vendredi, 1 mars 2013 à 16:15, Anil Madhavapeddy a écrit :
> Objects aren't a problem in js_of_ocaml, but the general principle
> of staying away from them in a core library seems to what everyone
> wants anyway.

I agree but there's one exception, the thread-safe generation of program uid. I used this more than once to implement the keys of heterogenous dictionaries (à la http://mlton.org/PropertyList). And it's also used in cmdliner here [1].

I would really like to have that in Sys to avoid linking against Oo. There's a way to do it yourself but it does rely on implementation details of the runtime system, see discussion here [2]. As such for now I prefered to use the Oo.id trick.  

Best,

Daniel

[1] https://github.com/dbuenzli/cmdliner/blob/master/src/cmdliner.ml#L156
[2] http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5436#c6549



      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-01 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-28 16:37 Jeremie Dimino
2013-03-01  8:45 ` Alain Frisch
2013-03-01 11:22   ` Yaron Minsky
2013-03-01 15:15     ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2013-03-01 15:41       ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]

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