Re: [Caml-list] Records typing

[Christophe Raffalli <Christophe.Raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>]

> 
> This the use of "and". In mutually recursive type definitions, other
> types are not "known" during the definition, and as a result their
> representation cannot be used for optimization. I think this is true
> for all ocaml releases, but it is specified nowhere, and could be
> wrong.
> Since you're not going to write the first defintion anyway, this
> shouldn't be a real problem.
> The real problem is that when you use a signature like
>   sig type t type r = {f:t} end
> in a functor, then this signature cannot be instanciated by the
> unboxed version of r when t = float. And there is no way to solve it
> short of inlining functors.

And when will their be inlining of functors !!!

This is really needed to benefit both from
- High level programming using modules and functors
- the necessary (I really mean necesasry) optimization for float

> Cheers,
> 
> Jacques Garrigue
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