From: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>,
O Camlmailinglist <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] References and polymorphism
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:20:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D9C26218B6@Remus.metastack.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326214824.62249.YahooMailNeo@web111507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Dario Teixeira wrote:
> Thank you, Romain and Arnaud. With that "list ref" example in mind, it
> does make sense for the compiler to play it safe and declare foobar2 to
> be non-polymorphic. Moreover, this is one of those issues where I I
> suspect that compiler elfs must have pondered already how easy/feasible
> it would be to extend the compiler to detect sound instances (such as
> foobar2) that could be accepted...
They certainly did: http://mlton.org/ValueRestriction has links to the various papers on the subject (the present scheme was not the first solution for SML, as it notes).
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-10 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 15:29 Dario Teixeira
2012-01-10 15:45 ` Romain Bardou
2012-01-10 16:31 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2012-01-10 17:00 ` Dario Teixeira
2012-01-10 17:20 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2012-01-10 18:59 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-01-11 10:48 ` [Caml-list] " Dawid Toton
2012-01-11 11:07 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-01-11 13:00 ` Dawid Toton
2012-01-11 13:15 ` rossberg
2012-01-11 13:56 ` Dawid Toton
2012-01-11 15:42 ` rossberg
2012-01-12 9:55 ` Dawid Toton
2012-01-12 10:05 ` Andrej Bauer
2012-01-12 10:46 ` Romain Bardou
2012-01-11 11:43 ` rossberg
2012-01-11 13:34 ` Dawid Toton
2012-01-11 15:34 ` rossberg
2012-01-11 13:57 ` Dawid Toton
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