Re: # and polymorphic variants

["Andrzej M. Ostruszka" <ostruszk@order.if.uj.edu.pl>]

On Thu, Feb 01 (2001), Juergen Pfitzenmaier wrote:
> and f (x : t) =
> 	match x with
> 	| #t1 -> f1 x      (* this is not allowed !! *)
> 	| #t2 -> f2 x;;
> 
> The compiler can't constrain the type t of x to t1/t2 in the call to f1/f2.

What about alias patterns? The following seems to work:

type t1 = [ `A of int ]
type t2 = [ `B of string ]
type t = [ `A of int | `B of string ]

let f1 (`A x) = print_int x
and f2 (`B x) = print_string x
and f (x : t) = match x with
        | #t1 as a -> f1 a
        | #t2 as b -> f2 b
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