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From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCAML Downcasting?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:44:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fz5axhwe.fsf@qrnik.zagroda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409221340120.5809-100000@localhost.localdomain> (Brian Hurt's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:42:16 -0500 (CDT)")

Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org> writes:

>> Apply this reasoning to the exn type. Why don't you define all exn
>> constructors in one place?
>
> Ignoring the fact that exceptions are built into the language, I'd read
> section 4.2 "Polymorphic Variants" of the Ocaml language manual for how to
> get around this.

It helps only in some cases. In particular it's not expressive enough
to replace exn.

-- 
   __("<         Marcin Kowalczyk
   \__/       qrczak@knm.org.pl
    ^^     http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-22 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ci7tcf$qqf$1@wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
     [not found] ` <ci9ggm$i6p$1@wolfberry.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
2004-09-21  8:03   ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-21  8:43     ` Damien Pous
2004-09-21  9:15       ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-21  9:29         ` skaller
2004-09-21  9:49           ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-21  9:34         ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2004-09-21  9:56           ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-21 19:27     ` Michael Vanier
2004-09-21 21:38       ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-21 22:06         ` Michael Vanier
2004-09-21 22:32           ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-22  1:04           ` skaller
2004-09-21 22:20         ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-22  2:26           ` skaller
2004-09-22  6:31             ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-22  9:03               ` sejourne_kevin
2004-09-22 10:29               ` Richard Jones
2004-09-22 18:39                 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-22 10:50               ` skaller
2004-09-22 12:03               ` Alain Frisch
2004-09-22 12:50               ` Cláudio Valente
2004-09-22 13:15                 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-22 15:50                   ` skaller
2004-09-22 18:42               ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-22 18:44                 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk [this message]
2004-09-22 19:18                   ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-22  0:50         ` skaller
2004-09-22  1:30       ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-22  2:59         ` skaller

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