From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA08166; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:21:15 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA08099 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:21:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA00101 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:56:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp10.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.10]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f5DLtgT11037 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:55:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA04243; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:43:46 +1000 Message-ID: <3B27DE92.4D22FC@ozemail.com.au> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:43:46 +1000 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederick Smith CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Evaluation Order References: <200106111303.JAA14369@sarg.Ryerson.CA> <3B265783.C386F97@ozemail.com.au> <3B279ADB.B966DDD0@cs.cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Frederick Smith wrote: > I do not believe a simple effect annotation on function types, as suggested, would > suffice. Although we may like to think of OCaml programs as effect free, they are > replete with effects: 1) I/O, 2) exceptions, and 3) non-termination. Arghh. You're quite right. Even if we forget about non-termination, the dynamic nature of exception handling makes it very hard to make static typing rules which account for them. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr