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From: Radu Grigore <radugrigore@gmail.com>
To: fa.caml@googlegroups.com
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Differences between Array and Strings
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:03:44 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbf8808a-8fce-4f1c-adc8-04f2400b6e52@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.YVp+LBcZBn2VVSqyBV+/Bw0Mb/I@ifi.uio.no>

On Friday, April 29, 2011 12:51:59 PM UTC+1, louis....@ens.fr wrote:
> > let l () = "1" ;;
> > [...]
> > l()==l();;
> # val l : unit -> string = <fun>
> # [...]
> # - : bool = true

Is there a good reason for this behavior? My first thought was that that code should behave the same as

  let f () = ref () in f () == f ()

(A satisfying explanation would *not* involve the compiler.)

       reply	other threads:[~2011-04-30 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.YVp+LBcZBn2VVSqyBV+/Bw0Mb/I@ifi.uio.no>
2011-04-30 11:03 ` Radu Grigore [this message]
2011-04-30 13:34   ` David Allsopp
2011-04-30 23:10     ` Martin Jambon
2011-04-29 11:51 louis.jachiet
2011-04-29 14:36 ` David Allsopp
2011-04-30 14:06 ` Philippe Wang

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