On Tuesday 22 December 2009 18:02:32 Edgar Friendly wrote:
> On 12/22/2009 01:12 PM, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 13:09:27 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> The advantage with ocaml though is that you never have pointers into a
> >> structure. Makes thinks a lot simpler for the GC and avoids large
> >> overheads in memory.
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean by OCaml "never has pointers into a
> > structure". Half the problem with OCaml is that OCaml almost always uses
> > pointers and the programmer has no choice, e.g. for complex numbers.
>
> I think he means that ocaml structs (records, tuples) will only ever
> have pointers pointing to their beginning - you can't have a pointer to
> somewhere in the middle of a structure.

If so then I do not understand the relevance. You cannot have pointers into a 
structure in F# or HLVM either...

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