From: Robert Fischer <robert@fischerventure.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Question about type unification
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:29:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483B0F81.1020907@fischerventure.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080526192157.3e75c121@orange.fr>
How is the compiler magically getting from the float to a string value? Can someone break down
what's actually happening here for me?
~~ Robert.
Fabrice Marchant wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 13:22:04 +0100
> Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
>
>> With this definition:
>>
>> type 'a t = float
>>
>> Why is this allowed?
>>
>> # ((3.0 : unit t) : string t) ;;
>> - : string t = 3.
>
> Never thought to write such odd things. Maybe is there some interesting use ?
>
> Fabrice
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-26 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-26 12:22 Richard Jones
2008-05-26 12:33 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-05-26 12:37 ` Romain Bardou
2008-05-26 17:21 ` Fabrice Marchant
2008-05-26 19:29 ` Robert Fischer [this message]
2008-05-26 19:38 ` DooMeeR
2008-05-26 19:43 ` Robert Fischer
2008-05-26 19:45 ` Jeremy Yallop
2008-05-26 21:44 ` Richard Jones
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