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From: Fabrice Marchant <fabricemarchant@free.fr>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] functions' recursive construction
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:28:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080707202839.272a4b0b@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a58674cc0807071304x1640d670sde3045a0920a5922@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:04:17 -0500
"William Neumann" <wneumann@gmail.com> wrote:

> For a quick hint as to why you cannot write such a function, ask
> yourself what the type of f would be.
> 
> Consider just the two cases of the type of (f 1) and (f 2).

Thanks for your swift answer,

So it's 'No', as I guessed, because the types of your two cases are different.

After Coq, maybe could we program this in Lisp ?

Regards,

Fabrice


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-22 23:17 Damien Lefortier
2007-05-22 23:21 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-05-22 23:31   ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-05-22 23:32     ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-05-22 23:41       ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-23  6:25     ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2008-07-07 18:01 ` Fabrice Marchant
     [not found]   ` <a58674cc0807071304x1640d670sde3045a0920a5922@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-07 18:28     ` Fabrice Marchant [this message]
2008-07-07 20:40       ` Jeremy Yallop
     [not found]   ` <C3DD7276-23D5-41BE-A272-7579586A5559@gmail.com>
2008-07-07 18:36     ` Fabrice Marchant
2008-07-07 20:25   ` Jeremy Yallop
2008-07-07 19:11     ` Fabrice Marchant
2008-07-07 22:48       ` asmadeus77
2008-07-08  9:24       ` Daniel Bünzli

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