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From: Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com>
To: Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
Cc: OCaml List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "this ground coercion is not principal"
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:29:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANhEzE7T2tho5jmFdR-wz=EvD4Un_AbtowbN0eCCUC=cfSvH_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFrFfuGbo8nX5Nh_3F0vJagQ-p8WEPjmMCy-6-mZfhw1oE5RdA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
> but I could not find anything on google for either "ground coercion"
> or "principal type coercion" that would explain what it was actually
> saying. Could someone please point me to a reference?

I don't know of a reference but there is a mantis ticket to improve
this error message:

  http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=5523

-- 
Jeremie

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-25  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-25  4:47 Martin DeMello
2015-02-25  9:29 ` Jeremie Dimino [this message]
2015-02-25 10:38 ` Jeremy Yallop
2015-02-25 21:35   ` Martin DeMello
2015-02-25 23:04     ` Jeremy Yallop
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-10 20:15 [Caml-list] This ground coercion is not principal? bob zhang
2013-01-10 21:06 ` Jeremie Dimino
2013-01-10 21:12   ` bob zhang

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