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From: Jake Donham <jake@donham.org>
To: OCaml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Obj.magic and existential types.
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:34:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7e4e9f0906221734m5a9ccab9n98643e6ae05a4f1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66E06129-1281-48F4-AE9D-E56FD716917A@erratique.ch>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Daniel
Bünzli<daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch> wrote:
> But in this "chunk" can you repeatedly get external (in the sense primitive)
> input ?
>
> Because _if_ you can't then in the breakout game example where you need to
> constantly gather (external) time and keyboards events you cannot "pipe"
> those under a single bind where you create the game simulation and logic
> signals needed  for a game run as any new keyboard or time event would
> garbage collect them. In that case the game signals need to be defined
> outside a toplevel bind and cannot be garbage collected by froc, it wouldn't
> be fixed "by wrapping everything in a top-level bind".

I don't totally understand your objection here. Perhaps the question
could be resolved (one way or the other) if I were to port the
breakout game to froc. In the meantime, there are several web browser
examples here:

  http://froc.googlecode.com/svn/examples/index.html

which take external input and do not leak memory. Best regards,

Jake


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-19 17:42 Guillaume Yziquel
2009-06-19 18:21 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-06-19 18:30   ` Guillaume Yziquel
2009-06-19 18:37     ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-06-19 18:47   ` [Caml-list] " Jake Donham
2009-06-20  8:30     ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-06-21 18:08       ` Jake Donham
2009-06-21 18:39         ` Yaron Minsky
2009-06-22  0:03         ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-06-22  9:19           ` Benjamin Canou
2009-06-22 17:02           ` Jake Donham
2009-06-23  0:24             ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-06-23  0:34               ` Jake Donham [this message]
2009-06-23  2:22               ` Jake Donham

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