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From: Martin Jambon <martin_jambon@emailuser.net>
To: "Harrison, John R" <johnh@ichips.intel.com>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Re: immutable strings (Re: Array 4 MB size limit)
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 19:36:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605281728140.17765@droopy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <196F1D996F92CD46A542EA519DB8CE4703CCA9F0@orsmsx409>

Hi John,

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Harrison, John R wrote:

> With immutable strings, you'd never need to do conversions at the module
> interfaces. As with any other functional data structure, you only copy
> when you want to change part of it.

OK, but let's be pragmatic: what kind of interface and implementation do 
you have in mind?

(and then: isn't it possible to implement in OCaml?)


If anyone is interested:

Before posting I tried a polymorphic (wrt mutability) string type.
It was fun enough, but it doesn't scale very well. I put it there:

   http://martin.jambon.free.fr/ocaml.html#gstring



Martin

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-29  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-28 23:20 Harrison, John R
2006-05-29  2:36 ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2006-05-31 12:53 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2006-06-05 20:54 ` immutable strings Matti Jokinen
2006-06-07  0:36   ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-29 20:52 [Caml-list] Re: immutable strings (Re: Array 4 MB size limit) Harrison, John R
2006-05-15 18:12 Array 4 MB size limit akalin
2006-05-19  5:57 ` [Caml-list] " Frederick Akalin
2006-05-19 16:28   ` Jozef Kosoru
2006-05-19 21:26     ` Jon Harrop
2006-05-20  1:06       ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-20 21:11         ` immutable strings (Re: [Caml-list] Array 4 MB size limit) Oliver Bandel
2006-05-25  4:32           ` immutable strings (Re: " Stefan Monnier
2006-05-25  5:56             ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2006-05-25  7:23               ` j h woodyatt
2006-05-25 10:22                 ` Jon Harrop
2006-05-25 19:28                 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-25 11:14               ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-25 19:42                 ` Oliver Bandel
2006-05-26  6:51                 ` Alain Frisch
2006-05-25 17:31               ` Aleksey Nogin
2006-05-25 19:54                 ` Martin Jambon
2006-05-25 11:18             ` Brian Hurt
2006-05-25 17:34               ` Aleksey Nogin
2006-05-25 18:44                 ` Tom
2006-05-25 23:00                   ` Jon Harrop
2006-05-25 23:15                     ` Martin Jambon

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