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From: Christophe TROESTLER <debian00@tiscalinet.be>
To: garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Cc: warplayer@free.fr, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] about Obj.magic
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 18:19:36 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020531.181936.55316303.debian00@tiscalinet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020531225840C.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> From: "Warp" <warplayer@free.fr>
> 
> > > So, we should be very careful to use 'Obj.magic'. Can somebody tell me
> > > the appropriate situation to use this function?
> > 
> > One case can be 'almost-legal' : downcasting an object [...]
>
> By the way, here is a simple way to do downcasts, when really
> needed.  [...] No need to do anything unsafe.

Is there any safe way to check whether a "kind : ('a, 'b)
Bigarray.kind" parameter is "float64", "complex64",... or are we bound
to do

  kind  = (Obj.magic float64 : ('a, 'b) Bigarray.kind)

Cheers,
ChriS
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-31 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-30 21:09 dengping zhu
2002-05-30 22:38 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-05-31  4:00 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-05-31  5:37   ` Oleg
2002-05-31  6:17     ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
     [not found]       ` <p05100300b91cea02dbf5@[192.168.1.22]>
2002-05-31  9:50         ` [Caml-list] SML->OCaml (was: about Obj.magic) Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-05-31 15:39   ` [Caml-list] about Obj.magic dengping zhu
2002-05-31 16:28     ` John D. Barnett
2002-06-01  8:37     ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-06-01 16:00       ` dengping zhu
2002-06-01 17:20         ` Pierre Weis
2002-05-31  9:17 ` Warp
2002-05-31 13:58   ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-05-31 14:06     ` Warp
2002-05-31 18:21       ` John Max Skaller
2002-06-01 17:42         ` Pierre Weis
2002-06-02 15:15           ` John Max Skaller
     [not found]           ` <D37FA3E3-763B-11D6-BE8F-0003938819CE@inria.fr>
2002-06-04 10:22             ` Pierre Weis
2002-05-31 14:10     ` Remi VANICAT
2002-05-31 16:19     ` Christophe TROESTLER [this message]
2002-05-31 18:06       ` Olivier Andrieu
2002-05-31 22:03         ` Christophe TROESTLER

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