From: Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] string_of_polymorphic
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:18:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501031018.47703.jon@jdh30.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41D915E0.4030701@yahoo.it>
On Monday 03 January 2005 09:52, Luca Pascali wrote:
> As the subject says, my aim is to write a function that is able to
> covert into a string a generic polymorphic constructor, or at least its
> name, without using patter matching.
Why do you want to do this?
> ...
> Thanks in advance to anyone for hints, or links, or wathever help you
> can give me.
I think the run-time representation of a polymorphic variants' value is a hash
of its name and, therefore, cannot be mapped back onto a string in general.
There may be something else you can do specifically for the top-level but I
can't think what...
Cheers,
Jon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-03 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-03 9:52 string_of_polymorphic Luca Pascali
2005-01-03 10:18 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2005-01-03 11:01 ` [Caml-list] string_of_polymorphic Luca Pascali
[not found] ` <41D9211D.7060003@yahoo.it>
[not found] ` <200501031100.27306.jon@jdh30.plus.com>
2005-01-03 11:06 ` Luca Pascali
2005-01-03 16:27 ` pad
2005-01-05 18:17 ` Alex Baretta
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