From: "Harrison, John R" <johnh@ichips.intel.com>
To: "'Mattias Waldau'" <mattias.waldau@abc.se>,
"'Xavier Leroy'"<xavier.leroy@inria.fr>,
"'Caml List'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Cc: zielony@cs.net.pl, "Harrison, John R" <johnh@ichips.intel.com>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Toplevel question ...
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:48:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FD2423AA68A7D511A5A20002A50729E12C101B@orsmsx115.jf.intel.com> (raw)
| So, technically, it would be feasible to resurrect the Caml V3.1
| behavior: evaluating "expr ;;" at top-level binds the result
| value to the name "it". Do others think that it would be useful?
As I've said, I really like the "it" feature. It's also difficult to
imagine anyone seriously objecting to it, given that the Caml Light
misfeature of being unable to GC objects only accessible via overwritten
toplevel bindings has been corrected. I hadn't noticed that change
before, but I'm very pleased to see it.
| (But I think that soon people would ask you to keep all the
| lines, so that we would write it.(4) instead.)
If some more elaborate solution like that were contemplated, I'd like
an option to disable it or manually force forgetting and GC of earlier
items.
John.
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2002-03-06 16:48 Harrison, John R [this message]
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2002-02-28 15:49 Andrzej M. Ostruszka
2002-03-01 9:36 ` Tomasz Zielonka
2002-03-06 10:24 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-03-06 10:41 ` Mattias Waldau
2002-03-06 17:33 ` shiv
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