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From: Alex Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>, Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] marshalling polymorphic variants
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:50:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E1ABE4.4080909@baretta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040629084537.GA10992@redhat.com>

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:02:25PM +0200, henri dubois-ferriere wrote:
> 
>>hi, 
>>in the simple case below, it is possible to marshal out a ([`A | `B]
>>list), and then read it back as a [> `A | `B | `C] list.
>>
>>can this behavior be counted on , or is it not something an
>>application can assume to always work?
> 
> 
> Better to use Obj.magic if you're explicitly trying to subvert the
> type system?
> 
> Rich.
> 

It's better to use C if you are explicitly trying to subvert the type 
system...

Alex

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-29 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-28 21:02 henri dubois-ferriere
2004-06-29  7:55 ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-06-29  8:54   ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-06-29  8:45 ` Richard Jones
2004-06-29 17:50   ` Alex Baretta [this message]
2004-06-29 21:54     ` henri dubois-ferriere

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