Ketil Malde wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:37 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
Can someone explain me, why there are arrays with mutable but boxed
elements?
I, on the other hand, have always wondered why the strict arrays are
called "unboxed", rather than, well, "strict"? Strictness seems to be
their observable property, while unboxing is just an (admittedly
important) implementation optimization. I imagine that it'd be at least
as easy to implement the strictness as the unboxedness for non-GHC
compilers, and thus increase compatibility.
You're quite right, that was a mistake, we should have called them strict
arrays. Hugs implements the unboxed arrays without any kind of unboxing, I
believe.
Cheers,
Simon
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