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Concatenation of static strings?

Erik de Castro Lopo
- David Allsopp
  - Erik de Castro Lopo
- David Baelde
  - Ashish Agarwal
    - Oliver Bandel
      - Loup Vaillant
        
        Ashish Agarwal
    - Jon Harrop
      - Oliver Bandel

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Concatenation of static strings?

On Thursday 24 January 2008 23:02:48 Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> I was hoping there would be some follow up discussion on the code below,
> but haven't seen anything yet. Can someone please clarify why this is not
> considered a bug (or is it).

This is not considered a bug. String literals are static but array literals 
are not.

> Given that s is locally scoped within f, I do not see why f returns
> different answers. 

A static local remains the same between calls (so it is not thread-safe).

This has been discussed before several times. The reason given more making 
strings static is performance.

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