From: Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>,
Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Odd failure to infer types
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:50:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110903125041.GC15100@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFanBFbX-D_hb0SqXS7-g3cG9RVe6-W3MzEs_FvfwqRhX54aA@mail.gmail.com>
Le Saturday 03 Sep 2011 à 14:15:35 (+0200), Gabriel Scherer a écrit :
>
> [...]
Thanks for your explanation, which is quite thorough.
> It also seems quite wrong to me. You should perhaps file a bug into
> Mantis if no typing expert answers.
>
> I don't want to criticize your answer which was very helpful, but I
> would like to point out that I have seen the "when you don't understand
> the type checker, it may be a bug" reaction quite often on this list.
Well, there was an "if" clause... Nevertheless I agree that the
type checker is quite solid. I only had "serious" problems (infinite
loops) when playing too harshly with subtyping or recursive types.
--
Guillaume Yziquel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-03 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-03 9:53 Goswin von Brederlow
2011-09-03 10:31 ` Christophe Papazian
2011-09-03 11:42 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-09-03 10:36 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-09-03 11:35 ` Philippe Veber
2011-09-03 11:46 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-09-03 12:15 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-09-03 12:50 ` Guillaume Yziquel [this message]
2011-09-17 12:08 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-09-18 7:26 ` Gabriel Scherer
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