[Caml-list] ocaml 3.07 and optional arguments

["Vincent Barichard" <Vincent.Barichard@info.univ-angers.fr>]

Hi all,

I've just downloaded ocaml 3.07 and compil it. But when I try to compil old
programs, I encounter some problems with optional arguments in methods.
In fact I have the following method in a class called Solution:

 method scalarizingFunction ?weightVector' referenceSolution =
    match weightVector' with
     None -> self#doScalarizingFunction referenceSolution
    | Some y -> self#doScalarizingFunction' y referenceSolution

where referencePoint is a Solution.cPoint type object, and weighVector' a
Solution.weightVector type object.
and in another source file, I have the call:

  let newScalarizingFunctionValue = 
(sol#scalarizingFunction : ?weightVector':Solution.cWeightVector -> Solution
cPoint -> float) referencePoint in .....

With ocaml 3.06, It compiles fine, but with ocaml 3.07 I'va got the
following error:

ocamlc -I ../Common -I ../Exact -I ../TS -I ../SA -I ../EA -I ../HGA -g -pp
camlp4o unix.cma -c ../SA/mOSA.ml
File "../SA/mOSA.ml", line 64, characters 135-149:
This expression has type
  Solution.cPoint =
    < augment : Solution.cPoint -> Solution.cPoint -> unit;
      compare : Solution.cPoint -> Global.comparison; copy : Solution.cPoint

      distance : Solution.cPoint ->
                 Solution.cPoint -> Solution.cPoint -> float;
      get_OV : int -> float; get_OV_size : int;
      linearScalarizingFunction : Solution.cWeightVector ->
                                  Solution.cPoint -> float;
      load : char Stream.t -> unit;
      minmaxScalarizingFunction : Solution.cWeightVector ->
                                  Solution.cPoint -> float;
      save : out_channel -> unit; set_OV : int -> float -> unit >
but is here used with type
  ?weightVector':Solution.cWeightVector -> Solution.cPoint
make: *** [../SA/mOSA.cmo] Error 2

Is there any changes with the use of optional arguments for methods ?
I didn't find any clue in the ocaml 3.07 documentation.

Thanks you for your help.

Vincent

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