From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cyclic types
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:47:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1F350A61-7250-11D9-866D-000D9345235C@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f8e92aa05012909335800c97@mail.gmail.com>
On Jan 29, 2005, at 18:33, Radu Grigore wrote:
> For now I have setteled for
> type forest = Forest of forest StringMap.t
>
> Can you give an example of why rectypes by default is dangerous?
IIRC, rectypes are off by default because they trade a small increment
in expressive power for a large degradation of the intelligibility of
type-checking error messages. I don't think they are dangerous in the
sense of breaking the type system.
-- Damien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-29 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-29 12:15 Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 12:34 ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 13:42 ` [Caml-list] " Remi Vanicat
2005-01-29 17:12 ` brogoff
2005-01-29 17:33 ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 23:47 ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2005-01-30 5:56 ` brogoff
2005-01-30 6:05 ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-30 7:19 ` William Lovas
2005-01-30 10:33 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-01-30 11:44 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-02-01 9:27 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-01-29 21:02 ` skaller
2005-01-30 6:46 ` brogoff
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