Hi David,

Because the arguments passed to functions could be considered as references
(same memory space), IMHO, if you respect the scope priority it should work.

For instance:

let () =
    let h = Hashtbl.create 7 in
    let f k v = Hashtbl.remove h k in
        Hashtbl.iter f h

Julien.

2008/5/11 David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>:

> Hello,
>
> Probably a newbie question but anyway: is it allowed to do a
> Hashtbl.remove while doing a Hashtbl.iter on the same hash table?
>
> More precisely, at one point while doing a "Hashtbl.iter f h" my
> function "f" is called with something like "f k v". Can I do a
> "Hashtbl.remove h k" within the body of "f"?
>
> Sincerely yours,
> david
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Julien Peeters
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