Re: [Haskell-cafe] idea for avoiding temporaries

On Mar 8, 2007, at 17:09 , Matthias Neubauer wrote:

David Roundy writes:

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I see. But how would one manage these handles? What's to keep me from accidentally copying a handle? It sounds like it'd require explicit memory management, in order to avoid ever copying a handle, if I were to implment this myself.

Because you seem to write imperative code anyways: can't you simply use a specialized state monad with the array(s) hidden inside the monad as monad state?

Err, wasn't the point was that he wanted a pure way to get out of writing that imperative code? -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH