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d="scan'208";a="217801507" Received: from mout.web.de ([217.72.192.78]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256; 23 Mar 2017 17:05:52 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([77.182.91.3]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101 [213.165.67.124]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MQNeK-1clUf52Q0K-00TlKC for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:05:51 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr From: SF Markus Elfring Message-ID: <28a8a53b-1729-3020-b33e-ee3a142e554e@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:05:38 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:6Mo0j5RcNjElXEh5U2bx+SiaBWN2cAVkdcwBInv0ncv/iTKdJF9 ZCT8+FO/RcmiOgyrmwPzyoqkNm5DXijOU9PvmkGN502OMKnKB9oxAfe198oe2DJba8tI2PB CU6pxre8VwoKXjvS/rlZvmHcN3/6pLj5/6x6fjA30ddcg1wkl2VC3Y0+O78FvqxGSgWt3BV dMon1pfAbqifOMP6wmVjA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:1wUtUBUwDiU=:vyn9xKw6rOO57LVrNJfv2Y Tk5RVd55hMBr7m7U6RVfkFT0hGuzokYKhkumGIYQtS0KXfvnr2ijHWOzNNON7hpqxk0dfqmgx VBkbhdKHCZJMmpWmVQP84AQLVKACaXDRdZCD4rw5q4s3NfsANN0e6Sf0KSz9idM/Ie6QgPmBX T/fDXxTiRPRpiN8qxGwFZOcYW109xbVCfqm8anClZooutvb5PaRyB2OUPBRtYUgQTpYlet5gs 6FEgqqDHVY9fNAvYMY0icTX8Eyvct3nhPCS/g+lr40Og2+8o8lVYecebJj/MLjdzenpJCB03X HA5v8HE6rQGIrw9011F4J5dMIID2EKY9CIaJZc3Cgb8yGEEkDnVQDfAnPHr2q0bMvIoyq1vDg ZimQlT0/z4NiJfezLsLfLmkroiOQzHjPpIWtszRg6K6CnE4UFxoZNfTcbR0orerq+PkXBKDEE ptARS6/MQIwlYkdbDch5ttWDkK/DK/eKvKYDKxZCDjc18amWttUDJ3MlfafFUtNG8gZEC55/N yJ5oD3Mn+XDQEmJu26lbYIRkIAFJ7ljHHl1jOnxqRFOG0DRK80+8qre7/Oq+m4zndaDpb5Xu+ iGuzgUWLOhxQjktQtu/9soUC1mvGWi9WHJuedG5DEIQ8Kxd9QfkroIVcx4PJuBb5Y4fyVT15C HudaTxvyDafxwh5ICS6b0hcFqZrb2tdoTZHZHU+iL2Qo22NMcX3axYvo7OsL1z+GK2pVX+NnK JBpOGNjCahSoNxssC3ykxQifqH41Lzt+ZnGTBcKaFyTBegabaaOw/kViR4ODlxbppz3TJwUN2 uFUD5hJ Subject: [Caml-list] Checking compatibility for evolving programming interfaces Hello, OCaml is also an instance of a programming language where type inference belongs to core functionality. The usage of various data types will evolve in several programming interfaces. * How do you think about to check if API revisions are still compatible there? * Which kind of variations can be occasionally tolerated in interface descriptions? I would appreciate your advices. Regards, Markus