* [Caml-list] Syntax of types
@ 2013-02-07 6:21 Christophe Papazian
2013-02-07 6:48 ` Jacques Garrigue
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From: Christophe Papazian @ 2013-02-07 6:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi
I'm not sure to understand the difference between :
let f (type s) : s t -> s = ...
let f : type s . s t -> s = ...
except it seems I can use the second one in place of the first one, but sometimes I can't use the first one and need the second one.
So I feel I only need the second one.
Thank you for your answers
Christophe
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* Re: [Caml-list] Syntax of types
2013-02-07 6:21 [Caml-list] Syntax of types Christophe Papazian
@ 2013-02-07 6:48 ` Jacques Garrigue
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From: Jacques Garrigue @ 2013-02-07 6:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christophe Papazian; +Cc: Caml List
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On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Christophe Papazian <
christophe.papazian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm not sure to understand the difference between :
>
> let f (type s) : s t -> s = ...
> let f : type s . s t -> s = ...
>
> except it seems I can use the second one in place of the first one, but
> sometimes I can't use the first one and need the second one.
> So I feel I only need the second one.
>
As explained in the manual, they are not strictly equivalent.
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-4.00/manual021.html#toc80
In particular the second syntax guarantees that the type is polymorphic,
and syntactically it can only used just after the defined identifier.
This said, in practice the second one mostly subsumes the first one (but it
is just syntactic sugar).
Jacques Garrigue
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