From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: fixed length arrays as types
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:03:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001108200344.A24808@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001108090802.00bb9570@shell16.ba.best.com>; from checker@d6.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:20:18AM -0800
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:20:18AM -0800, Chris Hecker wrote:
> I disagree about this. It's really about type safety and strong
> typing. You can catch a lot of errors if you can type the shape of
> the array (especially in numerical code). Not only can you get rid
> of assert(size(array)==4) in every numerical function, but you can
> also safely get rid of runtime bounds checks in some cases (as Xi's
> work shows). But, ignoring efficiency, I think the added type safety
> is a win.
You might want to check out fISH then. It is very Caml-ish.
http://www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au/~cbj/FISh/
Dependent ML, Cayenne, and Coq may also be of interest to you.
Cheers,
Bill
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<pan2:#math> when i was a kid i behaved like a polynomial
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-09 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-05 3:06 Chris Hecker
2000-11-07 8:41 ` Judicael Courant
2000-11-07 13:28 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-11-07 17:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-11-08 9:53 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-11-08 17:20 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-09 4:03 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2000-11-09 21:53 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-11 15:15 ` John Max Skaller
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