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| From: | Kuba Ober <ober.14@o...> |
| Subject: | Syntax ideas for non-uniform memory (near/far etc) |
I'm trying to adapt Ocaml syntax to embedded uses. There, memory is often non-uniform and variables can live in different areas, say near/far/rom. I was wondering what would be the "cleanest" syntax for that. I presume that adding near/far/rom as keywords and using them similarly to "rec" would work, e.g. let print rom s = ... (* prints a string with a rom address *) The truth is that "rom/near/far" is really part of the type, as if a function has a parameter living say in rom then it won't take one in ram. So maybe one could have let print (s : rom) = .... of type string -> unit For those unfamiliar with embedded work, think 16-bit x86 with near/far pointers and whatnot. I'm all ears for other ideas as to how it might be implemented. Any syntactic sugar to make it cleaner looking? I presume that an extension of this idea is to have multi-faceted types, where each type is really a tuple of "types", such that some could be polymorphic and some not. Say one wants to have a function which will work on data put anywhere: let print (s : 'c, string) = .... where 'c is the "storage class", here polymorphic, and string is the good old type. Of course none of this would use *the* OCaml compiler, I'm trying to write (or port, rather) my own. Kuba