From: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Generalized Algebraic Datatypes
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:35:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <263325.93623.qm@web111505.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbp6chfnw.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org>
Hi,
> > While this does make sense in Haskell, in Ocaml it feels a bit
> > out of place, because you cannot, for example, partially apply
> > a type constructor.
>
> The types above don't allow partial applications either. They use the
> OCaml/SML style of constructors were partial application is not possible
> because the various arguments are not provided in a curried way.
That was precisely my point (I think you may have misunderstood what I said).
In Ocaml, whenever you see a curried type declaration you can safely assume
that the constructors may be partially applied. The GADT syntax under
discussion breaks this assumption; hence my reticence.
Cheers,
Dario Teixeira
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-30 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-29 14:32 [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2010-10-29 15:03 ` Jacques Le Normand
2010-10-29 15:19 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-10-29 15:53 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Le Normand
[not found] ` <129751088.61814.1288367649864.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr>
2010-10-29 16:02 ` Xavier Leroy
2010-10-29 16:42 ` Dario Teixeira
2010-10-29 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-29 21:37 ` [Caml-list] " bluestorm
2010-10-29 23:01 ` Jacques Le Normand
2010-10-30 5:14 ` Jacques Garrigue
2010-10-30 13:04 ` Jacques Carette
2010-10-30 13:50 ` Dario Teixeira
2010-10-31 14:15 ` Wojciech Daniel Meyer
2010-10-31 14:35 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-10-31 14:49 ` [Caml-list] " Lukasz Stafiniak
2010-10-31 15:08 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-10-31 15:31 ` [Caml-list] " Lukasz Stafiniak
2010-10-29 22:05 ` Wojciech Daniel Meyer
2010-10-30 13:35 ` Dario Teixeira [this message]
[not found] <jwvvd4jf9z0.fsf-monnier+inbox@gnu.org>
2010-10-31 12:22 ` Dario Teixeira
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