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From: Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>
To: Jeffrey Scofield <jeffsco@psellos.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Strange behavior of mutualy recursive definitions
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:45:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110428084557.GW4023@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zknavqou.fsf@pse.psellos.com>

Le Thursday 28 Apr 2011 à 01:24:33 (-0500), Jeffrey Scofield a écrit :
> rixed@happyleptic.org writes:
> 
> > Why 'let rec f = f' is rejected is clear: you cannot type f.
> 
> In my thinking, f is typeable with type 'a (fully general type).
> I don't think it's untypeable, it just doesn't have a useful type.
> It's similar to the type of failwith : string -> 'a, but without
> the string.

Exactly.

-- 
     Guillaume Yziquel


  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-28  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-27 20:46 [Caml-list] " rixed
2011-04-27 20:54 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-04-27 21:28   ` rixed
2011-04-27 21:51     ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-04-28  4:05       ` rixed
2011-04-28  6:24         ` [Caml-list] " Jeffrey Scofield
2011-04-28  8:45           ` Guillaume Yziquel [this message]
2011-04-28  8:57             ` rixed
     [not found]       ` <244248468.756230.1303963610378.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr>
2011-04-28  7:26         ` [Caml-list] " Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-04-28  8:53           ` rixed

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