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From: "Andreas Rossberg" <AndreasRossberg@web.de>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Semantics of physical equality
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:45:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00a801c3fde8$09c7e0c0$404a06d5@wiko> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040228103435.GA15099@roke.freak>

Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org> wrote:
> > > But both r.a and r.b are ints, so it is always OK (== and = are the
same
> > > on ints).
> >
> > That is what the current implementation does, but it is not guaranteed.
>
> On integers and characters, physical equality is identical to structural
> equality. [1]
>
> It depends what you mean by ,,guaranteed'' though.
>
> [1] http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/libref/Pervasives.html

You are right, I stand corrected. Int is a special case.

BTW, the manual speaks of "integers". Surely it only holds for plain type
"int", not for other integer types, like big_int, int32, does it?

     - Andreas

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-28 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-27 20:29 Kevin S. Millikin
2004-02-27 21:32 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2004-02-27 22:59   ` Michal Moskal
2004-02-28  9:40     ` sejourne kevin
2004-02-28  9:55       ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-02-28 10:07         ` Michal Moskal
2004-02-28  9:56       ` Michal Moskal
2004-02-28 10:21         ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-02-28 10:34           ` Michal Moskal
2004-02-28 10:45             ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2004-02-28 11:25               ` Michal Moskal
2004-02-27 23:16 Kevin S. Millikin
2004-02-27 23:48 ` Michal Moskal

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