From: Sebastien Briais <sebastien.briais@epfl.ch>
To: Florian Hars <hars@bik-gmbh.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] About polymorphic methods and recursive classes
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:06:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E807E95.7090005@epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E8079D8.5000507@bik-gmbh.de>
Florian Hars wrote:
> Sebastien Briais wrote:
>
>> But what is the reason of this limitation ? I do not see the reasons
>> since for example, in Generic Java, such a definition is correct
>
>
> I don't know if it is directly related to your problem, but Generic
> Java is a bad reference point, because it's type inference is know to
> be unsound:
>
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/types/archives/current/msg00849.html
>
> Yours, Florian
>
This problem in type inference has been fixed since january 2002:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/types/archives/current/msg00921.html
Sébastien
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-25 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-22 11:22 Sébastien Briais
2003-03-24 8:44 ` Damien
2003-03-24 17:50 ` Sebastien Briais
2003-03-25 1:15 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-03-25 13:07 ` Sebastien Briais
2003-03-25 15:46 ` Florian Hars
2003-03-25 16:06 ` Sebastien Briais [this message]
2003-03-26 0:58 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-03-26 7:43 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-03-25 9:22 ` [Caml-list] " Andrzej M. Ostruszka
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