[m-rev.] for review: store-based arrays

Julien Fischer jfischer at opturion.com
Thu Jun 9 11:34:27 AEST 2016


Hi Mark,

On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>>
>> What's the rationale for adding this?  (I don't have any objections but
>> am just curious ...)
>
> I've long thought it would be generally useful but hadn't got around
> to it. But the random number generator interfaces I posted made me
> think of it, because using these kind of arrays would make it
> convenient to use the random/2 typeclass directly for generators such
> as the xorshift ones, instead of using the two-level typeclass scheme.

I thought that might have been the reason ...

> I'll post an alternative take on the RNG typeclasses soon.

Cool.  I've looked at your other diff, but haven't had time to
respond to it in detail.

Julien.


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