Indeed, reading this thread now I have no idea why I thought that was a
good idea in the first place!


On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:53:25AM -0800, Jeff Meister wrote:
> > Can't you simply define it this way? (I don't think I'm using any new
> > features, so maybe I misunderstood your question.)
> >
> >         OCaml version 4.00.1
> >
> > # external id : 'a -> 'b = "%identity";;
> > external id : 'a -> 'b = "%identity"
>
> That is wrong. %identity is of type 'a -> 'a. You are lying to the
> type system and all matter of errors and segfaults will ensure (see
> later mails).
>
> MfG
>         Goswin
>
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