From: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
To: Till Varoquaux <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Issues with Sexplib (#1)
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:17:31 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <778325.65397.qm@web111514.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8300811290901l4d2596a9mef88e5f0f4bcb956@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
> This is not really a bug; I'd qualify this as an "undesirable"
> feature: sexplib erases type information; for instance the
> representation of None* will always be the same and therefore
> will be desexpable to any other option type. You may also note
> that some other type have compatible representations. In
> practice it would be really hard for a camlp4 extension to keep
> track of types. In you case you could use custom converters and
> save the phantom type in the sexp.
Yes, I figured as much (see the last paragraph of my original
message). I was just wondering if there was already a canned
solution to this sort of problem (or one in the works), before
I wrote a custom converter.
Cheers,
Dario Teixeira
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-29 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-29 16:40 Dario Teixeira
2008-11-29 17:01 ` [Caml-list] " Till Varoquaux
2008-11-29 17:17 ` Dario Teixeira [this message]
2008-12-02 19:14 ` Markus Mottl
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