From: Cedric Cellier <rixed@happyleptic.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Type annotations [Was: Are record types generative?]
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:41:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180126144137.GA8669@rxdmac.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180126110325.GA3461@Magus.localnet>
-[ Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 08:03:25PM +0900, Oleg ]----
> In short, if we know that a function is to take three arguments and
> return an int, why not to write it down.
Because sometime the compiler does a better job at guessing more generic types
than what I had in mind, which might came handy later when/if I do need that
more generic function?
Or merely because I actualy enjoy giving only the vaguest indications to the
compiler and have it walk me toward the actual thing that I wanted to say :)
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2018-01-26 11:03 Oleg
2018-01-26 14:41 ` Cedric Cellier [this message]
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