From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27CFBB9C for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:35:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jAL9ZYYJ006531 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:35:34 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA13059 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:35:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jAL9ZW5g006522 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:35:33 +0100 Received: from localhost (orion [130.54.16.5]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAL9ZUAQ011816 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:35:31 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:35:30 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20051121.183530.68544487.keiko@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Feature wish: to omit explicit coercion for mli's From: Keiko Nakata X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.1 (AOI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 438194E6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 438194E4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; mli:01 mli:01 val:01 ml's:01 coercion:01 coercion:01 int:01 checking:02 match:02 match:02 explicit:03 explicit:03 let:03 suppose:05 efficient:06 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Hello, it would be nice if I can omit explicit type coercion to match .ml files with .mli's. For instance, the following obj.ml does not match with obj.mli. in obj.ml: let o = object method f1 = 1 method f2 = 2 end in obj.mli: val o : < f1 : int > Explicit coercion would make the type system efficient. However, I suppose that only inferring coercion when checking that .ml's meet .mli 's does not have much effect. Regards, Keiko NAKATA