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From: artboreb@netscape.net (Arturo Borquez)
To: garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Jacques Garrigue)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml 3.07 and optional arguments
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:18:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24CC0396.359C27FF.00958B05@netscape.net> (raw)

Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:

>> From: "Vincent Barichard" <Vincent.Barichard@info.univ-angers.fr>
>> 
>> > I've just downloaded ocaml 3.07 and compil it. But when I try to compil old
>> > programs, I encounter some problems with optional arguments in methods.
>> [...]
>> > Is there any changes with the use of optional arguments for methods ?
>> 
>> I don't remember introducing any change at that level.
>
>After another bug report, it seems that a parsing bug went into camlp4
>just before the release :-(
>
>        Camlp4 Parsing version 3.07
>
># fun (f : ?x:int -> bool -> float) -> f true;;
>This expression has type bool but is here used with type ?x:int -> bool
># fun (f : ?x:int -> bool -> float) -> f;;
>- : ((?x:int -> bool) -> float) -> (?x:int -> bool) -> float = <fun>
>
>This is apparently a priority problem.
>A workaround is to explicitly add parentheses.
>
># fun (f : ?x:int -> (bool -> float)) -> f true;;
>- : (?x:int -> bool -> float) -> float = <fun>
>
>There is no fix for camlp4 itself yet.
>
>      Jacques Garrigue
>

Hi,

Is there a patch planned soon to solve this issue?

Best regards

-- 
Arturo Borquez


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             reply	other threads:[~2003-09-30 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-30 19:18 Arturo Borquez [this message]
2003-10-01  0:04 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-10-01  8:43   ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-10-01 15:45     ` Yaron Minsky
2003-10-01 15:54       ` Alain.Frisch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-01 20:28 Arturo Borquez
2003-10-01 23:51 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-09-29 18:13 Vincent Barichard
2003-09-30  1:24 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-09-30  3:07   ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-09-30  5:29     ` Vincent Barichard

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