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From: tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez)
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Cc: David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Exceptionless error management, take 2
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:53:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080208095333.GA582@snarc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080208.001729.233402575.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 12:17:29AM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> Polymorphic variants allow to check exhaustiveness... as long as you
> use exhaustive pattern matching (i.e. no wildcard, exactly like for
> normal variants.)

well, and "normal" variants allow to check exhaustiveness too in ALL case.
so what's the point in using polymorphics variant then ?

> And they _cannot_ pollute any namespace, since they define nothing.

did you actually read my previous reply ?
they "pollute" since the polymorphic variant namespace is flat, and
don't interact with module (on purpose obviously)

-- 
Vincent Hanquez


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-07 15:01 David Teller
2008-02-07 15:09 ` [Caml-list] " Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-07 16:40   ` David Teller
2008-02-07 15:17 ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-02-07 15:22   ` Jon Harrop
2008-02-08  9:54     ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-07 15:52   ` David Teller
2008-02-07 16:06     ` Olivier Andrieu
2008-02-07 16:23       ` David Teller
2008-02-08  9:53   ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
2008-02-08 10:52     ` rlehy
2008-02-08 11:56       ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-08 12:40         ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-02-08 15:39           ` David Teller
2008-02-08 17:06             ` Eric Cooper
2008-02-08 20:02               ` David Teller
2008-02-08 19:29             ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-02-08 21:13               ` David Teller
2008-02-10 12:35           ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-08 19:07     ` Jon Harrop
2008-02-10 11:58       ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-10 16:51       ` Matthew William Cox
2008-02-07 15:33 ` Jon Harrop
2008-02-07 16:25   ` David Teller
2008-02-07 23:10 ` David Teller
2008-02-10 18:47 ` Yaron Minsky
2008-02-10 22:05   ` David Teller
2008-02-11  2:16     ` Yaron Minsky
2008-02-11  8:45       ` David Teller
2008-02-11 12:12         ` Yaron Minsky
2008-02-11 12:53           ` David Teller
2008-02-11 23:09             ` Yaron Minsky

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