From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB45BBCA for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 09:52:11 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvoBADzxJEhQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACSCQEBAQ8gmGA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,464,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12441417" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 May 2008 09:52:10 +0200 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m4A7q950011228 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 09:52:10 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvoBADzxJEhQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACSCQEBAQ8gmGA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,464,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12441416" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 May 2008 09:52:06 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JujsD-0000Yj-RS for caml-list@inria.fr; Sat, 10 May 2008 08:52:05 +0100 Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 08:52:05 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml rocks Message-ID: <20080510075205.GA2043@annexia.org> References: <200805090139.54870.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <200805090609.36123.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1210331526.17578.32.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> <200805091910.41381.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1210365645.17578.88.camel@flake.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de> <9d3ec8300805091400q1ed60bf8x95e31814ebf62473@mail.gmail.com> <20080509222603.GA21613@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 48255429.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 0200,:01 berke:01 durak:01 ad-hoc:01 10,:98 polymorphic:01 wrote:01 heap:01 heap:01 caml-list:01 primitives:01 namely:02 readme:03 limitations:04 On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 01:01:03AM +0200, Berke Durak wrote: > But you are saying in the README that values in the ancient heap have some > limitations, namely no ad-hoc polymorphic primitives. You misunderstand this limitation, but anyway ... > So we need a function to copy back an ancient value in the heap so > that it can be used normally Should you want to copy a value back to the heap (almost always unnecessary), you can just copy it like you would any other value. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat