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From: "Milan Stanojević" <milanst@gmail.com>
To: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
Cc: Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>,
	Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com>,
	 Caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GADT existential escape
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:46:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKR7PS8DuLUgs7YvDii2te8uhZ9DgpU7NnUNzyUmOnrmN-b_zA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87E7B1EBF3144E7C844448D0F5EBB407@erratique.ch>

> N.B. As it stands this is slightly less efficient than using open variants, since you'd have to allocate an exn value for checking equality.
>

Exceptions and open variants are actually exactly the same.
"exception" is basically a syntactic sugar now.
exception Foo of int is the same as type exn += Foo of int.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-19 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-19  0:29 Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19  0:39 ` Milan Stanojević
2015-03-19  1:07   ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19  1:27     ` Milan Stanojević
2015-03-19 10:44       ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 11:02         ` Jeremy Yallop
2015-03-19 11:34           ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 13:22             ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 16:46             ` Milan Stanojević [this message]
2015-03-19 17:14               ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 17:15                 ` Frédéric Bour
2015-03-19 17:22                   ` Milan Stanojević
2015-03-19 17:41               ` Jeremy Yallop
2015-03-19 18:29                 ` Alain Frisch
2015-03-19 16:31           ` Milan Stanojević
2015-03-19 11:05         ` Jeremie Dimino
2015-03-19 11:34           ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 11:59             ` Jeremie Dimino
2015-03-20 13:50               ` Yaron Minsky

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