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From: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
To: Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Equality of functional values
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:15:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BFDF8C.20609@mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45BFCF7D.5010302@fmf.uni-lj.si>

Andrej Bauer wrote:
> Jacques Carette said he would be happy with an intensional notion of 
> equality of functions. Surely Jacques, you would want some guarantees 
> about such an equality to make it useful, otherwise one could just define
>
>   let reallySillyIntensionalEquality f g = false

I really meant 'Intensional equality', in other words, if they are the 
same as far as the system is concerned (in a logic this usually this 
means the same syntactically, but in the case of ocaml that would be 
pointer equality).

> So are you suggesting something other than ocaml's == ? What 
> guarantees would you expect?

I was under the impression that ocaml's == did funny things with respect 
to floats?  I want an equality that is "powerful" on ground values and 
== on functional values (ie no exceptions when == is not true).

Jacques


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29 21:04 Simon Frost
2007-01-29 21:11 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-01-29 21:23   ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-29 21:59 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-01-30  8:17   ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-01-30  8:45   ` David MENTRE
2007-01-30 13:24 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-01-30 13:55   ` skaller
2007-01-30 14:21     ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-30 15:21     ` Jeff Polakow
2007-01-30 15:49       ` Jacques Carette
2007-01-30 17:23         ` Chris King
2007-01-30 20:18           ` Tom
2007-01-30 20:30             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-01-30 20:41               ` Fernando Alegre
2007-01-30 21:01                 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-30 21:08                   ` Tom
2007-01-30 21:46                     ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-30 22:05                       ` Fernando Alegre
2007-01-30 23:13                         ` skaller
2007-01-30 23:06     ` Andrej Bauer
2007-01-31  0:15       ` Jacques Carette [this message]
2007-01-31  7:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-31 12:54           ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Carette
2007-01-31  0:15       ` [Caml-list] " skaller

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