Hello William,

I am using a mutable record. I am programming this 90%
in the imperative (non-functional) style, so that I
can rewrite critical parts into Fortran easily.
Another reason is, I am an intermediate user and
finding out whether the recursion is a tail-one or not
is difficult for me. This is a kind of number
crunching problem and the data structures will be
huge.

Blessed are the creators of OCaml for the inclusion of
all imperative constructs.

Martin

--- William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu> schrieb:

> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:32:02PM +0200, Martin
> Chabr wrote:
> > [...]  But I cannot use the same scheme to the
> > array of the (int * record) structures, because I
> do
> > not know how to copy these structures to dissolve
> the
> > sharing. I do not even know how to copy records.
> > [...] How can I produce completely
> > unshared structures?
> 
> Maybe i'm missing something, but if these are
> unmutable records, then why
> do you need to concern yourself with any potential
> sharing?  As long as the
> array cells are not "shared" -- which they can't be,
> as far as i know --
> you can update each one individually no matter what
> the sharing status of
> their contents is.
> 
> If the records *are* mutable, then the suggestion to
> use Array.init should
> be sufficient.
> 
> Hoping i might save you some work :)
> 
> William
> 


Martin Chabr
Hochstrasse 28
8044 Zürich
Schweiz / Switzerland
Tel.P.: 01-261 17 24


	
		
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