From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de>
To: "'caml-list'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why must types be always defined at the top level?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:47:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40DB0587.4090403@ps.uni-sb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040624142732.9767110EF06@clark.cs.brown.edu>
John Hughes wrote:
>
> 1. Why no eqtypes? The idea of having the type-checker verify that you
> weren't doing equality testing on non-equality-testable types seemed
> like GOOD thing in SML, and I was surprised to see it gone.
To cite Bob Harper: "Equality types are stupid and should have been
dropped ages ago."
Unfortunately, nobody seems to have a satisfying alternative either.
- Andreas
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Andreas Rossberg, rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de
Let's get rid of those possible thingies! -- TB
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-22 22:41 Richard Jones
2004-06-22 22:53 ` Markus Mottl
2004-06-22 23:32 ` skaller
2004-06-23 12:01 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-06-23 14:45 ` skaller
2004-06-23 16:28 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-06-23 20:21 ` skaller
2004-06-23 20:52 ` skaller
2004-06-24 14:27 ` John Hughes
2004-06-24 16:47 ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2004-06-24 17:30 ` Markus Mottl
2004-06-24 17:45 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-06-24 19:46 ` John Hughes
2004-06-24 19:56 ` David Brown
2004-06-24 19:57 ` William D. Neumann
2004-06-24 20:13 ` Olivier Andrieu
2004-06-24 23:26 ` Brian Hurt
2004-06-25 10:20 ` skaller
2004-06-25 11:07 ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-06-25 12:30 ` skaller
2004-06-25 14:38 ` [Caml-list] Thread and kernel 2.6 pb still there in CVS Christophe Raffalli
2004-06-25 16:08 ` [Caml-list] " Marco Maggesi
2004-06-25 16:32 ` Markus Mottl
2004-06-28 15:08 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2004-06-28 18:50 ` Benjamin Geer
2004-06-29 2:26 ` Christophe Raffalli
[not found] ` <7AFB5F64-C944-11D8-975C-00039310CAE8@inria.fr>
[not found] ` <40E11621.3050709@univ-savoie.fr>
2004-07-05 15:14 ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-07-05 16:34 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-07-06 9:33 ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-08 13:51 ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-07-08 15:03 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-07-09 23:21 ` Donald Wakefield
2004-07-10 10:56 ` Damien Doligez
2004-06-24 23:23 ` [Caml-list] Why must types be always defined at the top level? Brian Hurt
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406241813370.4202-100000@localhost.localdom ain>
2004-06-26 23:08 ` Dave Berry
2004-06-25 1:59 ` Yaron Minsky
2004-06-24 23:08 ` Brian Hurt
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