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From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
To: stephanh@win.tue.nl
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: practical functional programming
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 13:56:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001109135418.00b33a30@walt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00110912094400.16244@pcrm>


>> How does the compiler "know" the datastructure is purely functional?
>It doesn't. Why would it have to?

Right, I was being an idiot.  If it's got a ref in there that's ever updated, it just isn't functional.  I was somehow thinking...well, I don't know what I was thinking.  :)

Chris




  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-10 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-03 22:44 Chris Hecker
2000-11-04 18:48 ` Chet Murthy
2000-11-05 14:25 ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-06 22:26   ` Michael Hicks
2000-11-06  6:55 ` Francisco Reyes
2000-11-06 13:16 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-11-06 18:15   ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-07  7:54     ` Stephan Houben
2000-11-11 14:32       ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-12 13:17         ` Ken Wakita
2000-11-12 20:09           ` John Max Skaller
2000-11-13  0:19             ` Ken Wakita
2000-11-13  7:45         ` STARYNKEVITCH Basile
2000-11-07  9:06     ` Xavier Leroy
2000-11-07 10:13       ` Chris Hecker
2000-11-09 10:56         ` Stephan Houben
2000-11-09 21:56           ` Chris Hecker [this message]
2000-11-07 18:05     ` Thorsten Ohl
2000-11-07 19:19     ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2000-11-06 23:10 Hao-yang Wang
2000-11-06 23:24 Hao-yang Wang

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