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From: "Lukasz Stafiniak" <lukstafi@gmail.com>
To: eliot@generation.net
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] records with polymorphic variants?
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This question should go to the "OCaml Beginners"
<ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com>.

On 3/4/07, Eliot Handelman <eliot@generation.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to define a record with a field whose type
> is an extensible polymorphic variant.
>
> I can  this:
>
> type f = [ `A of int ]
>
> type r = { x : f }
>
> but then I can't do this:
>
> { x = `B "test" }

This is crearly a type mismatch: you specified r.x to allow only `A of int.
>
> I'm not even sure if what I'm asking for is possible.
>
I don't think so.

> Guessing at the syntax I tried
>
> type  r = {
>     f :  [> #foo]
>   }
>
> which results in:
>
> Warning D: this syntax is deprecated.
>       f :  [> #foo]
>               ^^^^
> Characters 24-28:
>       f :  [> #foo]
>               ^^^^
> The type [< foo ] is not a polymorphic variant type
>
Try the syntax:

# type r = {x : [> foo]};;
Characters 14-21:
  type r = {x : [> foo]};;
                ^^^^^^^
Unbound type parameter [..]

The open variant type introduces a type parameter, which is not bound
in definition of type r. I don't think these unnamed parameters can be
bound, so that you could write:

 "type 'a r = {x : foo SUM 'a}".

> I hope it is clear what I'm trying to do. Thanks for your help.
>
No, it is not clear. You haven't specified the context.