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From: David MENTRE <dmentre@linux-france.org>
To: ronniec95@lineone.net
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] type equality help (camlidl related but not directly)
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:00:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzfbjzi3.fsf@linux-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB8EA9C00092F61@mk-cpfrontend-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com> (ronniec95@lineone.net's message of "Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:49:31 +0000")

Hello,

ronniec95@lineone.net writes:

> type union_9 =
>   | NUMERIC
>   | STRING
>   | TBOOL
>   | ENUM_DATA
>   | CONTROL
>   | ENCRYPT
> and msg_type = union_9
>
> let foo x : msg_type option = x
                       ^^^^^^Here is the trick


> If I try to do
>
> # foo STRING;;
> Characters 4-10:
>   foo STRING;;
>       ^^^^^^
> This expression has type union_9 but is here used with type msg_type option

You should do :
# foo (Some STRING);;
- : msg_type option = Some STRING

foo is defined as an option (| None | Some of 'a) over msg_type.

Yours,
d.
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-23 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-23 15:49 ronniec95
2003-12-23 16:00 ` David MENTRE [this message]
2003-12-23 16:12   ` [Caml-list] type equality help - Thanks to all ronniec95

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