From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strange observation on polymorphic '<'
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:17:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <281F644B-43EF-11D9-BA22-000D9345235C@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E571848-430E-11D9-AF66-000A95CDFBE4@cs.unc.edu>
On 30 Nov 2004, at 21:30, Ritesh Kumar wrote:
> Am I missing something here? Let us assume that the function which
> internally uses the '<' operator is used only in the context of
> integers
> inside the program.
You are missing this: because of separate compilation the compiler has
no
way to know whether the function will only be used on integers in your
program. When it compiles the function, it doesn't know what it will
be used for.
-- Damien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-01 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-30 20:30 Ritesh Kumar
2004-12-01 23:17 ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2004-12-03 7:24 ` [Caml-list] " Ritesh Kumar
2004-12-03 8:22 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-12-04 11:05 ` Missing a function Frédéric Gava
2004-12-04 13:25 ` [Caml-list] " sejourne_kevin
2004-12-04 14:13 ` Frédéric Gava
2005-01-29 19:34 ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 19:55 ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 21:05 ` Olivier Andrieu
2005-02-04 20:18 ` Radu Grigore
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