[Caml-list] Strange Gadt error

[Anders Peter Fugmann <anders@fugmann.net>]

Hi,

I the following example (boiled down from a real use case):

type _ elem =
   | Int: int elem

let rec incr: type a. a elem -> a -> int = function
   | Int -> fun i -> add i 1
and add n m = n + m

I get the error (Ocaml 4.02.3):
File "example.ml", line 5, characters 24-25:
Error: This expression has type int but an expression was expected of type
          int
        This instance of int is ambiguous:
        it would escape the scope of its equation

I can get rid of the error by annotating the type of i in line 5 like this:

  | Int -> fun (i : int) -> add i 1
                    ^^^

Or move add above incr like this:

let rec add n m = n + m
and incr: type a. a elem -> a -> int = function
   | Int -> fun i -> add i 1

Is there an explanation to why I need to give the type of i in this 
case? As 'i' _must_ be an int (from the type annotation of incr), 
annotating the function seems ambiguous.

/Anders