From: Pascal Cuoq <pascal.cuoq@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Polymorphic Variants and Number Parameterized Typ es
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:28:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020429152845.A3485@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1E4D3274D57D411BE8400D0B783FF32A8D72B@exchange1.cswv.com>; from neelk@cswcasa.com on Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:55:16AM -0400
Neel Krishnaswami wrote:
> There's no recursion in the module system because that would break
> the termination guarantee. If you think of modules as records, and
> functors as lambda abstractions, you can see that the module system
> defines a simply-typed lambda calculus. As you've noticed with C++,
> adding recursion to it would mean you can write nonterminating module
> expressions. (All this is wonderfully clearly explained in the paper,
> "A modular module system".)
I'm not sure about "simply-typed". Did the situation change since
that of http://caml.inria.fr/archives/199907/msg00027.html ?
Pascal
-------------------
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-29 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-29 12:55 Krishnaswami, Neel
2002-04-29 13:28 ` Pascal Cuoq [this message]
2002-04-29 13:33 ` Markus Mottl
2002-04-29 13:35 Krishnaswami, Neel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20020429152845.A3485@pauillac.inria.fr \
--to=pascal.cuoq@inria.fr \
--cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).