From: rossberg@mpi-sws.org
To: "Alexey Rodriguez" <mrchebas@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Preventing values from escaping a context
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:05:45 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <923d63e1a659ace0fee3550f81944e28.squirrel@mail.mpi-sws.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b39c80a1002110239i2fc1f555if642ed6a589d5b66@mail.gmail.com>
"Alexey Rodriguez" <mrchebas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On whether monads can solve the problem in this thread, yes they can.
Not in OCaml. In the presence of unrestricted side effects, the ST monad
trick is no longer sufficient because a resource can leak through a
reference or an exception without that showing up in the type.
> But for this you need support from the type system (rank-2 universal
> quantification).
FWIW, OCaml can express that, but it doesn't help the problem.
/Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-11 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 3:07 Rich Neswold
2010-02-09 3:38 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2010-02-09 8:24 ` Miles Sabin
2010-02-09 8:43 ` Jacques Garrigue
2010-02-09 17:18 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-09 8:31 ` Tiphaine Turpin
2010-02-09 18:09 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-09 18:45 ` Tiphaine Turpin
2010-02-10 0:39 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-10 8:55 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-02-10 18:00 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-10 21:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-02-09 17:13 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-09 3:59 ` Yaron Minsky
2010-02-09 17:16 ` Rich Neswold
2010-02-11 10:39 ` Alexey Rodriguez
2010-02-11 11:05 ` rossberg [this message]
2010-02-11 13:52 ` Alexey Rodriguez
2010-02-11 15:17 ` rossberg
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