Re: Constraint missbehaviours??

[Zheng Li <li@pps.jussieu.fr>]

"Till Varoquaux" <till.varoquaux@gmail.com> writes:
> type 'a exp2=[
> | 'a exp
> | `Sub of 'e * 'e
> | `Mul of 'e * 'e
> ]
> constraint 'a = <exp2:'e;..>;;
>
> doesn't type correctly but seems perfectly legal to me... Am I missing
> anything here?

Don't understand the purpose why you programming this way. But if what you want
the type check to recognize the `Mul 'e * 'e here has the same 'e as the 'e
inside 'a exp, you should explicit it, I don't see reasons why type checker
will unify these two polymorphic type parameters.

# type 'a exp2 = [
| (<exp:'e; ..> as 'a) exp
| `Sub of 'e * 'e
| `Mul of 'e * 'e
] constraint 'a = <exp2:'e; ..>;;
type 'a exp2 = [ `Add of 'b * 'b | `Mul of 'b * 'b | `Sub of 'b * 'b ]
constraint 'a = < exp : 'b; exp2 : 'b; .. >



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Zheng Li
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