Re: [Caml-list] Another q about many types

[Martin Jambon <m.jambon@ibcp.fr>]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Ryan Tarpine wrote:

> Many thanks for the advice on polymorphic variants; they seemed to be just
> what I needed.  But I've run into one small problem:  I can't define
> exceptions with arguments of polymorphic types.
>
> In the language I'm trying to implement, to raise an exception, the user
> needs to create an instance of an exception class.  So, in my
> implementation, I wanted to define an exception whose sole argument would be
> an instance of a class.  But, I designed instances to be records containing
> a polymorphic variant, which makes the record type itself polymorphic.  Is
> there some way to raise exceptions with polymorphic arguments, or some other
> possible way of implementing this?

Maybe something like this:

exception E of exn
...
exception E_1 of t1
...
exception E_2 of t2
...

try ... with
  E e ->
    match e with
       E_1 x1 -> x1
     | E_2 x2 -> some_conversion_to_t1 x2



Martin

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