Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Mutable List

[Eric C. C. <ec...@cm...>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:09:54AM +0100, Michal Moskal wrote:
> Ordering of arguments is copy dst src? I thought copy src dst, but...
> 
> >  val copy_list : 'a t -> 'a list -> unit
> 
> ...this made me think right.
> 
> Maybe assign instead of copy would be better? It suggests the right
> ordering of arguments. And I know each function here takes argument it
> operates as first argument, so this shouldn't be hard to remember.

This is a good case for
  copy ~src: x ~dst: y

(remembering strcpy, bcopy, memcpy, ... in C)

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