From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA14328; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:02:25 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA14528 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:02:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail3.bluewin.ch (mail3.bluewin.ch [195.186.1.75]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i55G2NEV000574 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:02:24 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.2] (62.202.63.54) by mail3.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 7.0.028) id 40A46963002D0636; Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:02:23 +0000 In-Reply-To: <40C1E87D.9030903@cs.unipr.it> References: <40C1E87D.9030903@cs.unipr.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: caml-list@inria.fr From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_B=FCnzli?= Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Garbage collecting _everything_ Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:03:47 +0200 To: Roberto Bagnara X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40C1EE8F.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 garbage:01 garbage:01 module:03 suppose:03 let:04 epfl:05 daniel:06 daniel:06 definition:06 tuple:07 1.0,:08 code:15 since:16 name:78 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Suppose you have this definition in a module let x = (1.0, 2.0) This tuple will never be garbage collected, since you can refer to it at any time in code via the name x. Daniel ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners