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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias@virtutech.se>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] type unsoundness with constraints and polymorphic variants
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:53:28 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080213145328.B49EF81B3D@kicki.hq.vtech> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8300802130635va73a8adr3cfd4f50ed7e3394@mail.gmail.com> (till.varoquaux@gmail.com)

>I would be very impressed if a student managed to write a full formal
>semantic in a summer.

So would most people, but we may be missing the goal. A solid
understanding of the language for serious programming or even
independent reimplementation does not necessarily require formal
semantics. A careful prose description would probably do.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-11 20:03 Stephen Weeks
2008-02-11 20:46 ` [Caml-list] " Markus Mottl
2008-02-12  4:22 ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-02-12 10:35   ` Andrej Bauer
2008-02-12 14:43     ` Luc Maranget
2008-02-13  8:00     ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-02-13 14:15       ` Christopher L Conway
2008-02-13 14:18         ` Michael Hicks
2008-02-13 14:22           ` David Teller
2008-02-13 14:35           ` Till Varoquaux
2008-02-13 14:52             ` Michael Hicks
2008-02-13 14:53             ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2008-02-13 15:55               ` Christopher L Conway
2008-02-13 16:53             ` Stefano Zacchiroli

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