From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA17589; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:24:22 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA17924 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:24:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wetware.wetware.com (wetware.wetware.com [199.108.16.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g91HOKD01762 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:24:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wetware.com(ra03.wetware.com[199.108.16.83]) (1020 bytes) by wetware.wetware.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.114 2001-Aug-6 #1 built 2002-Sep-2) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:24:21 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: [Caml-list] why is there an Oo.id function? From: james woodyatt To: The Trade Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <9F6B6E82-D562-11D6-97E6-000393BA7EBA@wetware.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk comrades-- I'm tempted to use the Oo.id function for its intended purpose, but I'm a little confused about why the function even exists. What is so special about object values that they need to have a unique identifier, when all the other distinguished value types don't have such a quality? I looked through the documentation about interfacing Caml with C, and I didn't see any indication that the object identifier is visible in the C interface. -- j h woodyatt ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners