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[Caml-list] Breaking out of iterative loops

Vincent Foley
- Johan Baltié
  - John Max Skaller
    - John Prevost
      - Markus Mottl
        
        Francois Pottier
        
        Alain Frisch
        
        Alessandro Baretta
        
        John Max Skaller

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Alain Frisch <frisch@c...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Breaking out of iterative loops

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Francois Pottier wrote:

> The situation is different in the case of immutable structures. I
> don't know of any situation where immutable, cyclic structures are
> useful.

FWIW, I used an immutable cyclic structure once in an interpreter for a
functional language; here is the code that evaluate a recursive
abstraction:

         let rec local' = (f,self)::local
         and self = Value.AbstrMatch (al,local',pl) in
         self

The closure (self) contains the environment (local') that makes reference
to the closure, hence the recursive definition.

-- Alain

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