Re: When functional languages can be accepted by industry?

From: Pierre Weis (Pierre.Weis@inria.fr)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 19:58:08 MET DST

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    > The deletion operation described in these papers will rebuild a tree. Therefore,
    > it does not seem to be comparably efficient with those implementations in
    > imperative languages.

    Don't forget that there is (almost) no restriction on side-effects in
    Caml: if this is crucial for your program, you can implement lists as
    an imperative data type of your own, and then use destructive update
    to perform the deletion operation in the required complexity. Just be
    aware that list sharing will be difficult as for any other imperative
    implementation of lists.

    Best regards, 

    -- 
Pierre Weis

    INRIA, Projet Cristal, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis

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