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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Nicolas Cannasse <warplayer@free.fr>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why doesn't ocamlopt detect a missing ; after failwith statement?
Date: 26 Nov 2004 11:11:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101427906.9291.107.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005701c4d333$c3bc31e0$19b0e152@warp>

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 08:14, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> > All well and good, but I don't understand why it doesn't warn me about
> > the missing ';' in the first case.
> 
> val failwith : string -> 'a
> 
> so failwith "error" prerr_endline "OK";
> 
> is a valid call since 'a unify with (string -> unit) -> string -> unit

.. a problem which could not occur were there a void type
which couldn't unify with 'a, and prerr_endline had
type string-> void.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-26  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-25 20:46 Richard Jones
2004-11-25 21:14 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Cannasse
2004-11-26  0:11   ` skaller [this message]
2004-11-26  0:44     ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-11-26  3:08       ` skaller
2004-11-26  5:25         ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-11-26  7:08           ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-11-26 14:42             ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-11-26 17:01               ` Alain Frisch
2004-11-26 19:36             ` Michal Moskal
2004-11-26 17:01           ` Damien Doligez
2004-11-29  0:40             ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-11-29 11:07               ` [Caml-list] Why doesn't ocamlopt detect a missing ; afterfailwith statement? Frederic van der Plancke
2004-11-29 11:43                 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-11-29 11:27               ` Frederic van der Plancke
2004-11-26 22:24           ` [Caml-list] Why doesn't ocamlopt detect a missing ; after failwith statement? Hendrik Tews
2004-11-27  3:47             ` skaller
2004-11-29  0:01             ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-11-29  7:52               ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-11-26  3:58       ` skaller
2004-11-26 19:16     ` Brian Hurt
2004-11-26  9:01   ` Richard Jones
2004-11-26  9:56     ` skaller
2004-11-26 13:32     ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen

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