On Tuesday 22 December 2009 18:02:32 Edgar Friendly wrote: > On 12/22/2009 01:12 PM, Jon Harrop wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 13:09:27 Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> The advantage with ocaml though is that you never have pointers into a > >> structure. Makes thinks a lot simpler for the GC and avoids large > >> overheads in memory. > > > > I don't understand what you mean by OCaml "never has pointers into a > > structure". Half the problem with OCaml is that OCaml almost always uses > > pointers and the programmer has no choice, e.g. for complex numbers. > > I think he means that ocaml structs (records, tuples) will only ever > have pointers pointing to their beginning - you can't have a pointer to > somewhere in the middle of a structure.
If so then I do not understand the relevance. You cannot have pointers into a structure in F# or HLVM either... -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
