From: Gleb Alexeyev <gleb.alexeev@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: How important are circular lists/recursive objects?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:24:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eusrv0$c29$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704021949590.5725@localhost>
Brian Hurt wrote:
>
> The question is: if this behavior was completely outlawed, and either
> you couldn't build up circular lists/recursive data structures of this
> type at all, or had to call special functions (List.circularize, say),
> to create them, would this be a signifigant problem? Does anyone
> actually use this construct, and if so, for what?
>
I do not use Ocaml for anything "real", but I think cyclic
data-structures are occasionally useful. The first example that springs
to mind: to implement "let rec" construct in interpreter one would need
cyclic environment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-03 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 23:55 Brian Hurt
2007-04-03 6:24 ` Gleb Alexeyev [this message]
2007-04-03 6:58 ` [Caml-list] " Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2007-04-03 7:00 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-04-03 12:09 ` Jon Harrop
2007-04-03 13:31 ` Bruno De Fraine
2007-04-04 23:28 ` Brian Hurt
2007-04-05 0:51 ` Jon Harrop
2007-04-03 12:49 ` Philippe Wang
2007-04-04 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-04 5:28 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-10-04 17:48 ` Fabrice Marchant
2007-10-04 20:39 ` skaller
2007-10-04 21:36 ` rossberg
2007-10-04 22:25 ` skaller
2007-10-05 10:42 ` Dominique Martinet
2007-10-08 9:57 ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-04-04 8:45 ` Don Syme
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