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From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@bononia.it>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] copy of parametrized object
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:57:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030624125746.GA5569@fistandantilus.takhisis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030624213608T.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:36:08PM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> famous value restriction: any function application result is
> non-polymorphic, and an object construtctor is seen as a function
> application.

BTW (but surely a bit off-thread), could you remember me for which
reason object constructors are not considered functions consistently in
the ocaml language? Why is currently not possible to do:

  type foo = Foo of int | Bar of int
  List.map Foo [1; 2; 3; 4]

?

TIA,
Cheers

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli  --  Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy
zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it}  -  http://www.bononia.it/zack/
"  I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not
sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!  " -- G.Romney

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-24 11:15 Bow-Yaw Wang
2003-06-24 12:36 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-06-24 12:57   ` Stefano Zacchiroli [this message]
2003-06-24 20:33   ` Bow-Yaw Wang
2003-06-25  0:25     ` [Caml-list] Visitor pattern (was copy of parametrized object) Jacques Garrigue
2003-06-25  1:06       ` Bow-Yaw Wang
2003-06-25  2:37         ` John Max Skaller

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