From 0683b3c8a32fabb9b78d9827ac809df3a6095434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Pryor Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:48:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] week9 tweak Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- week9.mdwn | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/week9.mdwn b/week9.mdwn index 76ba7ad6..a0c84322 100644 --- a/week9.mdwn +++ b/week9.mdwn @@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ At the end, we'll get `(1, 2, 3)`. The reference cell that gets updated when we Here, too, just as in the OCaml fragment, all the calls to getter and setter are working with a single mutable variable `free_var`. +If you've got a copy of *The Seasoned Schemer*, which we recommended for the seminar, see the discussion at pp. 91-118 and 127-137. + If however you called `factory` twice, you'd have different `getter`/`setter` pairs, each of which had their own, independent `free_var`. In OCaml: let factory (starting_val : int) = @@ -228,8 +230,6 @@ If however you called `factory` twice, you'd have different `getter`/`setter` pa Here, the call to `setter` only mutated the reference cell associated with the `getter`/`setter` pair. The reference cell associated with `getter'` hasn't changed, and so `getter' ()` will still evaluate to 1. -If you've got a copy of *The Seasoned Schemer*, which we recommended for the seminar, see the discussion at pp. 91-118 and 127-137. - Notice in these fragments that once we return from inside the call to `factory`, the `free_var` mutable variable is no longer accessible, except through the helper functions `getter` and `setter` that we've provided. This is another way in which a thunk like `getter` can be useful: it still has access to the `free_var` reference cell that was created when it was, because its free variables are interpreted relative to the context in which `getter` was built, even if that context is otherwise no longer accessible. What `getter ()` evaluates to, however, will very much depend on *when* we evaluate it---in particular, it will depend on which calls to the corresponding `setter` were evaluated first. ##Referential opacity## -- 2.11.0