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[Caml-list] Newbie question: semantics of 'mutable' in relation to deep / shallow copying of CAML values.
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Gerard Murphy
- Daniel de Rauglaudre
- Alain Frisch
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| From: | Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@i...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Newbie question: semantics of 'mutable' in relation to deep / shallow copying of CAML values. |
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 12:25:04PM -0000, Gerard Murphy wrote:
> Surprise! 'value2' is sharing state with 'value1', but neither
> 'value1' nor 'value2' are CAML references.
There is no specific notion of "reference" in OCaml: the type "ref" is
actually implemented as a mutable record:
type 'a ref = { mutable contents : 'a }
!x is just a shortcut for x.contents
x := y is just a shortcut for x.contents <- y
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Daniel de RAUGLAUDRE
daniel.de_rauglaudre@inria.fr
http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/
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