From: Thorsten Ohl <ohl@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Cc: John Prevost <j.prevost@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Creating mutually dependent objects?
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 04:08:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15692.35992.183045.427094@wptx47.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86eldfa1ho.fsf@laurelin.dementia.org>
John Prevost <j.prevost@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> Value constructors [...] are not allowed to run code--they just plop
> the value down in the appropriate place. And even then, if they're
> hidden behind functions, they can't be used this way, since it's
> *syntactic analysis* of the code that allows these constructions to
> be used in a let rec.
I see. My error was to overlook that a typechecker can't figure out
that the mutual references are never used as arguments to non trivial
functions.
> Hope this was helpful,
It was.
Thanks,
-Thorsten
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-04 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-02 17:19 Thorsten Ohl
2002-08-03 23:28 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-08-04 0:53 ` John Prevost
2002-08-04 2:08 ` Thorsten Ohl [this message]
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