From: skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: Tom Hawkins <tom@launchbird.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Invalid_argument("equal: abstract value")?
Date: 01 Jan 2004 14:10:11 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072926610.4197.81.camel@pelican> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312311621.51555.tom@launchbird.com>
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 09:21, Tom Hawkins wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2003 03:55 pm, Tom Hawkins wrote:
> Big_int.big_int_of_string "123" = Big_int.big_int_of_string "456"
>
> Sure enough, 'Invalid_argument("equal: abstract value")'. So what's
> the reasoning?
A bigint is (well, at least contains) an abstract
primitive defined in C, not an algebraic data type.
The compiler doesn't know how to compare bigints.
This could be fixed the same way as for finalisers ..
provide a table of hooks for custom blocks.
Another candidate other than comparison is obviously
serialisation to extend Marshal for abstract/opaque types.
The problem is .. there's no limit to where you'd like
dynamic polymorphism.. you'd end up with Python not Ocaml.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 21:55 Tom Hawkins
2003-12-31 22:21 ` Tom Hawkins
2004-01-01 3:10 ` skaller [this message]
2004-01-01 13:36 ` Damien Doligez
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