From: "Christopher L Conway" <cconway@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias@virtutech.se>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] type unsoundness with constraints and polymorphic variants
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:55:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a051d930802130755n21e8f328t2ca5466e2150644@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080213145328.B49EF81B3D@kicki.hq.vtech>
On Feb 13, 2008 9:53 AM, Mattias Engdegård <mattias@virtutech.se> wrote:
> >I would be very impressed if a student managed to write a full formal
> >semantic in a summer.
>
> So would most people, but we may be missing the goal. A solid
> understanding of the language for serious programming or even
> independent reimplementation does not necessarily require formal
> semantics. A careful prose description would probably do.
A careful prose description is what I intended to propose. A true
formal semantics is neither necessary nor sufficient.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-13 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-11 20:03 Stephen Weeks
2008-02-11 20:46 ` [Caml-list] " Markus Mottl
2008-02-12 4:22 ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-02-12 10:35 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-02-12 14:43 ` Luc Maranget
2008-02-13 8:00 ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-02-13 14:15 ` Christopher L Conway
2008-02-13 14:18 ` Michael Hicks
2008-02-13 14:22 ` David Teller
2008-02-13 14:35 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-02-13 14:52 ` Michael Hicks
2008-02-13 14:53 ` Mattias Engdegård
2008-02-13 15:55 ` Christopher L Conway [this message]
2008-02-13 16:53 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
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