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Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:50:57 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Markus Elfring Message-ID: <101ac12b-89c3-4803-6fcb-288949a164cd@web.de> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 08:50:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:m0YlQNQiqd9IYTP9ZYwC1K5cdfDWEb5FSFO2rTjmYvcTlrHHK+5 gH0OFQEtVk6EIcMFJ5Z/FJ7yOasGOD7tpA1NrCe9brZB3OIlOlm0D0DGQjv/pJMy8ThqqZM clE2RQIJmGKBzkADlKLtWJgVMMhAGOumXHKplAMiHzQwH93Zh/viY1nw8HQp9e2K5rU7G06 XNcfyOv4YQUzsntUijyOw== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:jqyeTWe2saI=:NrF23g++ZNxJSNEGRpkO1s xtvb6uzD2p0yFELv+h90eP9bV2QoCkXwECgc0qAe3UIWrZ31NCadIKZqtl6X5LfpdudqEYBOI kyX2YsXvVVYgSXRW4SdkCCeC0JoO4KXz1dEd8hEIz4epwFaNOj5EfrjMzNo0lEJ0RXOp3xPek S1VQEQKq8y7Uw23TvUx+nxqWgSgBbQ3CNUwevayjQZsQ7QooUQBsnu2ZJsiLSHearUbXX/JpU NiiHWtyz33RzESnzHJ+govcqW+I/JjMFiuzv4R2ZQICevufXBOZWgJd8EWbzAYgrTgRN7pcaa rDpKNaPvxMV2hr2sOKYXA/3q8DkYrAGxqx5+bny7/otCQwwN7+pKFD/n4Bj60taUV7DXktJ8R KBOyYea34VT0KvFRau5Vb/NpQZBUTnRFOk7dIO2SG19ic80CoN6nS90FOeOur0fRqv2uo98p7 zrWoTDq6XW1IR+pyU1PZbcF903/+vBcMhzkyH+ClaBCNeitAImebiyhR81bX8s9IAIERd2ZgG 5AXhIPBknRiOU+WSptp/CrsSaX9PP8JzvXKYH+pi6nMdCwCs37paMO/OQuZvsIODOe78ZpuVT EkrykUABxLQhX8SNI7TUNPZ53Qz0YHRTOXFayiboVVUwLwZbHQUH2hr9ZQdq0BeIqlko506mc 5v/9XtO3oqEQPbZLi5IF8efw4iteFp5rBi2RXMCnWcY66/08xMRtY0Y5EBFoXOicBwnf5nSbo vuEKL/xhuAf+Vq5CLlhmpOMdGvT739Wu0+2PYxBEswoEfHk1a+BQ21UBDiHNgCEP/nGPVvuZx yOmlRmV1sYnpjPSBR7a1cI5xnub/ShzOFSprgGPKOZzGEaJ3zGvJtXrcA5yAxYt7iKKka2VlP j8E4HBITkYLe95Dg7Dqg== Subject: [Caml-list] Determining compatibility for evolving programming interfaces Reply-To: Markus Elfring X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Sequence: 18325 Errors-To: caml-list-owner@inria.fr Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: caml-list-request@inria.fr X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Hello, OCaml is also an instance of a programming language where type inference belongs to core functionality. The usage of various data types will evolve in several programming interfaces. * How do you think about to check if API revisions are still compatible there? * Which kind of variations can be occasionally tolerated in interface descriptions? I would appreciate your advices. Regards, Markus