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From: Lukasz Stafiniak <lukstafi@gmail.com>
To: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
Cc: Caml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tuples (covariant immutable arrays)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:12:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJMfKEXbbFrRu1pFY_dWE3iN6F0sb=i-4OViMVRBbOr0v+ka+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL-jcAnLOTWkSt3nUu4M4TMBr4JhLSS6W7B7+Fi4VCFY2XPu3g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com> wrote:
> Batteries has a Cap submodule that provides type-level protection for arrays
> so they can be Read-only/Write-only/Read-write.  The same idea with a
> variance annotation and just read-only access seems to be what you're
> looking for, no?

It seems no, because Cap is invariant, and for a reason: for example,
Hashtbl.Cap.of_table says
"This operation involves no copying. In other words, in let cap =
of_table a in ..., any modification in a will also have effect on cap
and reciprocally."

What I'm thinking about is  type +'a Tuple.t with Tuple.of_list and
Tuple.of_array both performing a copy.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 20:38 Lukasz Stafiniak
2012-03-14 21:03 ` Edgar Friendly
2012-03-14 21:12   ` Lukasz Stafiniak [this message]
2012-03-14 21:26     ` Edgar Friendly
2012-03-14 22:18       ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz

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