[Haskell-cafe] idea for avoiding temporaries

[Matthias Neubauer]

David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:

> 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?

-Matthias

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