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From: Max Mouratov <max.mouratov@outlook.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What if exn was not an open type?
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 19:01:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR0901MB13410BB3EBE44FB6C0E0E61A8F520@VI1PR0901MB1341.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171104184401.3el2vbha2tgpvse5@annexia.org>

Saturday, November 4, 2017, 11:44:01 PM, Richard wrote:
> The problem is that the return statement could be called from many
> contexts, all with different types.  The compiler expects to unify all
> these types (as the same type 'b) which is not possible.

See how it's done in Batteries:

type 'a t = 'a -> exn

let return label value =
  raise (label value)

let label (type u) (f : u t -> u) : u =
  let module M = struct exception Return of u end in
  try f (fun x -> M.Return x)
with M.Return u -> u


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-04 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-20  9:56 Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-20 10:55 ` David Allsopp
2017-10-20 11:21   ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-10-20 11:38     ` Simon Cruanes
2017-10-20 16:54       ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-20 19:47         ` Simon Cruanes
2017-10-21 21:15           ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-24 13:30       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-10-24 19:02         ` Petter A. Urkedal
2017-11-04 18:44           ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-04 18:48             ` SP
2017-11-04 18:53               ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-04 19:03                 ` SP
2017-11-04 19:01             ` Max Mouratov [this message]
2017-11-04 19:16             ` octachron
2017-11-05 17:41               ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-05 18:39                 ` Yaron Minsky
2017-11-05 20:49                   ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-11-05 21:48                     ` Yaron Minsky
2017-11-05 21:53                     ` Petter A. Urkedal
2017-11-05 18:02             ` Petter A. Urkedal
2017-11-05 18:24               ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-11-05 18:55                 ` Petter A. Urkedal
     [not found]         ` <CALa9pHQ-nhWf4T0U5gDiKTduPiEeXSZPQ=DY6N1YNbCXqRohPQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-10-25  8:35           ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-10-25  9:12             ` Philippe Veber
2017-10-25 14:52               ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-10-25 16:37                 ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-10-25 17:47                   ` SP
2017-10-26  8:06                 ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-26  8:11                   ` Xavier Leroy
2017-10-25 13:36             ` Ivan Gotovchits
2017-10-26  7:31             ` Petter A. Urkedal
2017-10-27 13:58             ` Oleg
2017-10-27 14:24               ` Philippe Veber
2017-10-27 14:49                 ` Leo White
2017-11-01  7:16                 ` Oleg
2017-11-04 17:52                   ` Philippe Veber
2017-10-20 17:07   ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-21 21:28 ` Nathan Moreau
2017-10-22 12:39   ` Malcolm Matalka
2017-10-22 13:08     ` Nathan Moreau
2017-10-24 11:11     ` SP
2017-10-24 11:16       ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-10-25 11:30         ` Malcolm Matalka

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