From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA25395; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:50:37 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA18391 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:50:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8MAoW4X018473 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:50:35 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp202-133.lns1.syd3.internode.on.net [203.122.202.133]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i8MAoNOU074406; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:20:30 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCAML Downcasting? From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: <87d60eizlh.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> References: <87isa76z7g.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> <1095819964.2580.1016.camel@pelican.wigram> <87d60eizlh.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1095850222.2580.1177.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 22 Sep 2004 20:50:22 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 415158F8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 downcasting:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 marcin:01 'qrczak':01 kowalczyk:01 monad:01 statically:01 endl:01 pelican:01 bug:01 9660:01 glebe:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:31, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > sometimes the cost outweights the benefits. For example static > detection of possible division by 0 would be impractical. You could use a monad .. :) > And guess what? No language I know checks division by 0 statically Hehe --:> include "std"; print (1/0); endl; [skaller@pelican] ~>flxg aa EXCEPTION Division_by_zero That's a compile time error (Dang -- and its a bug too, the error should report the location .. :) But I assume you mean 'exhaustively'. -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners