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From: Radu Grigore <radugrigore@gmail.com>
To: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cyclic types
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:05:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f8e92aa050129220540e72c6d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1F350A61-7250-11D9-866D-000D9345235C@inria.fr>

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:47:23 +0100, Damien Doligez
<damien.doligez@inria.fr> wrote:

> IIRC, rectypes are off by default because they trade a small increment
> in expressive power for a large degradation of the intelligibility of
> type-checking error messages.  I don't think they are dangerous in the
> sense of breaking the type system.

Thank you.

Only one (small) problem remains. I do not understand this:

# type t = t StringMap.t option;;
The type abbreviation t is cyclic
# type t = Some of t StringMap.t | None;;
type t = Some of t StringMap.t | None


-- 
regards,
 radu
http://rgrig.idilis.ro/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-30  6:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-29 12:15 Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 12:34 ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 13:42 ` [Caml-list] " Remi Vanicat
2005-01-29 17:12   ` brogoff
2005-01-29 17:33     ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 23:47       ` Damien Doligez
2005-01-30  5:56         ` brogoff
2005-01-30  6:05         ` Radu Grigore [this message]
2005-01-30  7:19           ` William Lovas
2005-01-30 10:33       ` Xavier Leroy
2005-01-30 11:44         ` sejourne_kevin
2005-02-01  9:27         ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-01-29 21:02     ` skaller
2005-01-30  6:46       ` brogoff

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