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From: "Lukasz Stafiniak" <lukstafi@gmail.com>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How do I get polymorphic partial application?
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:49:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a708d20706231449g38836405xc48f4eb6fa82d779@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467D936C.5020501@philippewang.info>

On 6/23/07, Philippe Wang <lists@philippewang.info> wrote:
> Till Varoquaux wrote:
> > Humm... I have a small issue here: I need to get the result of the
> > partial application of a polymorphic function. Since variable are
> > generalized in Let it is generally advised to use eta expansions,
> > (i.e transform to a total application).
> > sometimes eta expansions just won't do the trick, consider:
>
> I think you should not try to "hide" that ugly side effect...
>
Could someone give an example where this "eta-thing" forbids a crash?
I don't remember any example even in Xavier Leroy papers.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-23 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-23 18:55 Till Varoquaux
2007-06-23 21:41 ` [Caml-list] " Philippe Wang
2007-06-23 21:49   ` Lukasz Stafiniak [this message]
2007-06-23 22:09     ` Till Varoquaux
2007-06-23 22:25       ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-06-23 22:11     ` Philippe Wang
2007-06-23 22:28       ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-06-23 22:07 ` Zheng Li
2007-06-23 22:09 ` Zheng Li

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