From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Polymorphic recursion 9Was Re: [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:57:02 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D66AFAE.7040607@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.95.1020821094217.35716C-100000@ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr>
Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote:
> Brian Rogoff a écrit
>
>
>>Oh I'm not arguing that point, I totally agree that it's omission is a
>>bad thing. However, not everyone agrees, since you it becomes a lot tougher
>>to build a monomorphizing compiler if you allow it, though it has been
>>suggested that the same tricks you use to manually remove polymorphic
>>recursion could be used in an SSC (sufficiently smart compiler).
>>
>
> I do not agree with your analysis since I really do not believe anyone
> could think that polymorphic recursion is useless. But it is a
> _difficult_ subject and the Caml Team is working on it (you can read
> their research summary)
I'm confused. I think you mean *type inference* is difficult
if you want polymorphic recursion?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-23 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-13 8:00 [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list Oleg
2002-08-13 8:54 ` Markus Mottl
2002-08-13 15:52 ` Oleg
2002-08-13 11:00 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-13 14:30 ` Oleg
2002-08-13 15:11 ` Anton Moscal
2002-08-13 16:12 ` Oleg
2002-08-13 17:16 ` Max Kirillov
2002-08-14 0:49 ` Max Kirillov
2002-08-13 18:23 ` Anton E. Moscal
2002-08-13 16:16 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-08-14 8:13 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-14 15:43 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-08-19 10:38 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-19 15:58 ` Polymorphic recursion 9Was Re: [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list) Brian Rogoff
2002-08-21 8:04 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-21 15:48 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-08-23 8:14 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-23 21:57 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
2002-08-27 13:00 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-28 14:50 ` John Max Skaller
2002-08-28 17:27 ` [Caml-list] FELIX (was: Polymorphic recursion) Oleg
2002-08-19 23:17 ` [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list james woodyatt
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