Re: [Caml-list] Feature wish: to omit explicit coercion for mli's

[Keiko Nakata <keiko@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
> If *.ml and *.mli do not match, then you have written
> code that better would be rewritten, to say it nicely. ;-)

I do not think this is a bug-wish.

ob.ml would match with ob.mli by inserting explicit coercion as in :

in ob.ml: 
 let o = (object  method f1 = 1  method f2 = 2 end :> < f1 : int >)

in ob.mli:
 val o : < f1 : int >


I thought that this explicit coercion can be suppressed  
with little inefficiency of the type checker.
I occasionally use immediate objects to build polymorphic objects 
without writing type annotations.
(I mean, if I build polymorphic objects through class definitions,
I may need to define the classes with many type parameters.)
For the same reason, I thought that it would be nice 
if I could omit explicit coercion in some cases
when it does not cause inefficiency a lot.

Regards,
Keiko