Re: [Caml-list] Private types

[Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>]

David Allsopp wrote:
> I agree that the error will still show up somewhere if there is an error -
> but remember that a closed polymorphic variant type required an annotation
> in the first place (in this case, the type [t] and the explicit type
> annotation to use it)... so having made the explicit choice to declare the
> type closed (which you either do to declare module interfaces or to try to
> trap errors) the last thing (I'd say!) you want is the compiler trying to
> open them back up on every unification failure!
> 
> 
> David
> 
You only declared the argument to the function as closed.  This doesn't
mean that the return type of the function must be that closed type.  If
you declared the function as returning type t, then the auto-open would
run into a type roadblock before it left the function.  But given your
initial code, the intent of the programmer seems clear in wanting a
different return type.

E.