From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: "'bluestorm'" <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com>,
"'caml-list caml-list'" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Purity and lazyness
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 16:15:03 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01d101cbb018$6038ccf0$20aa66d0$@com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=GOgfkJ-cZO6oi1ZgdqyfDoRzwLyMLkYsXKoNS@mail.gmail.com>
Bluestorm wrote:
> You need lazyness because you want to build a cyclic data structure.
> But is this such a good idea? In my experience, implicit cyclicity
> often raises more problems than it solves, and it is much safer to
> use an explicit indirection layer.
Don't closures often end up forming cyclic data structures on the heap that
are a good idea and don't cause problems?
Cheers,
Jon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-09 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-07 15:35 Dario Teixeira
2011-01-07 16:07 ` Damien Doligez
2011-01-07 16:38 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2011-01-07 18:16 ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 20:22 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 20:29 ` orbitz
2011-01-07 20:30 ` Joel Reymont
2011-01-07 20:33 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-08 9:44 ` Jesper Louis Andersen
2011-01-07 17:21 ` Alain Frisch
2011-01-07 17:46 ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-07 18:11 ` Holger Weiß
2011-01-07 18:52 ` Brian Hurt
2011-01-07 19:32 ` Petter Urkedal
2011-01-07 20:25 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-09 16:11 ` Jon Harrop
2011-01-10 6:27 ` Eray Ozkural
2011-01-07 19:17 ` Florian Weimer
[not found] ` <AANLkTikxCSQ+0XkOmSVDb3EWq_2oQ0pac3bDgc7f7jq+@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-07 20:52 ` bluestorm
2011-01-09 16:15 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2011-01-08 0:26 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva
2011-01-08 9:28 ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-01-08 22:47 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-09 10:00 ` Petter Urkedal
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