]> > However, there is one thing that particularly disturbs me about OCaml > - the way that it handles floating point values. In OCaml a floating > point value is always 64 bit, and because only values that are always > the size of a machine word internally are not allocated, floating > point values in OCaml are ALWAYS allocated on the heap!! "Often", but not "always". Detailed explanations on float boxing are available here: http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/numerical.html - Xavier Leroy ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners