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[Caml-list] Looking for a real array

Eray Ozkural
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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@s...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Looking for a real array

Eray Ozkural <exa@kablonet.com.tr> writes:

> Okay, I might be a little confused, forgive me. I thought, implementation 
> wise, when I say
> let a = [| 6, 3, 5, 7, 8 |]
> it's implemented by ocaml as
> int** a;
> in C speak.
> 
> Right or wrong? (Fearing that I might be demoted to beginner status
> now :P )

Wrong. foo array corresponds to foo*, and ints are not boxed, so int
array is like int*.

-- 
	Falk

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