From: Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>
To: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
Cc: Dmitri Boulytchev <dboulytchev@gmail.com>,
caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Confusing behaviour of type inference for polymorphic classes.
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 10:17:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAxsn=H94K0Cshn4qg1iFpnknSm4Bi1hk1UiCwcU5mEjCJt2_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <529D97B4.9070108@frisch.fr>
On 3 December 2013 08:35, Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr> wrote:
> On 12/02/2013 04:24 PM, Jeremy Yallop wrote:
>> There's good news and bad news. The good news is that the problem can
>> be solved for your particular example. The bad news is that the
>> approach doesn't work in the general case.
>
> A more general solution is based on recursive modules:
Using recursive modules certainly makes it possible to write a class
with the correct type, but unless I'm mistaken you lose the ability to
override the behaviour on recursive calls -- i.e. the call to (new
X.m)#t can no longer be replaced with a call through a self variable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-03 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-01 21:33 Dmitri Boulytchev
2013-12-02 14:41 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-12-02 15:05 ` Dmitri Boulytchev
2013-12-05 15:13 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-12-02 15:24 ` Jeremy Yallop
2013-12-03 8:35 ` Alain Frisch
2013-12-03 10:17 ` Jeremy Yallop [this message]
2013-12-03 12:33 ` Alain Frisch
2013-12-03 12:58 ` Jeremy Yallop
2013-12-03 17:49 ` Dmitri Boulytchev
2013-12-08 1:15 ` Jeremy Yallop
2013-12-09 13:48 ` Dmitri Boulytchev
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