From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: fixed length arrays as types
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 02:15:28 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A0D6290.B97CE632@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001108105312.57768@pauillac.inria.fr>
Xavier Leroy wrote:
> To me, having array sizes in the array types is mostly a left-over
> from languages where the compiler needs to treat static or
> stack-allocated arrays differently than dynamically-allocated arrays.
I'm not sure I can agree: I think the failure of
functional languages to cope with array sizes is simply
due to a lack of theory.
See http://www-staff.socs.uts.edu.au/~cbj.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-11 16:19 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
2000-11-09 21:53 ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-11 15:15 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
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