From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: "'Chantal KELLER'" <chantal.keller@wanadoo.fr>,
"'caml-list'" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Constructors are not functions
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:46:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003a01ca4683$14a813e0$3df83ba0$@metastack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003901ca4682$d47f8460$7d7e8d20$@metastack.com>
David Allsopp wrote:
> > Is there a reason for constructors not to behave like functions?
> > For instance, one cannot make a partial application from a constructor:
>
> This is how SML handles constructors, Xavier explained the reasons he
> chose to depart from this in:
>
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-
> list/2001/08/47db53a4b42529708647c9e81183598b.en.html
>
> I think it would be possible to simulate the SML behaviour in OCaml
> using camlp4 (if you assume that for [type foo = Bar of int] that
> future unbound references to [bar] are interpreted as [fun x -> bar x]
> instead of an error)
Tsk - [fun x -> bar x] should of course be [fun x -> Bar x]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-06 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-06 12:01 Chantal KELLER
2009-10-06 12:19 ` [Caml-list] " Philippe Wang
2009-10-06 12:38 ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 13:38 ` Richard Jones
2009-10-10 11:49 ` blue storm
2009-10-06 12:45 ` David Allsopp
2009-10-06 12:46 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2009-10-06 13:14 ` Jim Farrand
2009-10-06 13:51 ` Michel Mauny
2009-10-06 13:15 ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 14:04 ` David Allsopp
2009-10-06 14:51 ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 15:24 ` Richard Jones
2009-10-06 16:31 ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-10-08 12:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-09 6:29 ` David Allsopp
2009-10-10 6:16 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-06 13:18 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-10-06 15:50 ` Jérémie Dimino
2009-10-06 21:55 ` blue storm
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