From: Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@enst.fr>
To: Jacques Le Normand <rathereasy@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Generalized algebraic datatypes
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:50:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428065019.GA17693@kerneis.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f74178430804272235g47747b6j28921c17b039c0e0@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:35:06AM -0400, Jacques Le Normand wrote:
> Does ocaml support Generalized Algebraic datatypes?
No.
> If not, are there any caml based compilers that support it?
Some pieces of software (e.g. Ocsigen), which need GADT, use (very
carefuly crafted) "black magic" (Obj.magic) to get things compiled.
You could probably do this in your "toy compiler", put you will loose
the benefit of Ocaml's type-checking.
Regards,
--
Gabriel Kerneis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 5:35 Jacques Le Normand
2008-04-28 6:50 ` Gabriel Kerneis [this message]
2010-10-25 8:39 Generalized Algebraic Datatypes Jacques Le Normand
2010-10-25 9:44 ` [Caml-list] " bluestorm
2010-10-26 5:30 ` Jacques Le Normand
2010-10-27 21:07 ` Florian Hars
2010-10-25 10:17 Dario Teixeira
2010-10-29 14:32 Dario Teixeira
2010-10-29 15:03 ` Jacques Le Normand
2010-10-29 15:53 ` Jacques Le Normand
[not found] ` <129751088.61814.1288367649864.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr>
2010-10-29 16:02 ` Xavier Leroy
2010-10-29 16:42 ` Dario Teixeira
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