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From: Tom <tom.primozic@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff Polakow" <jeff.polakow@db.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>, caml-list-bounces@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What is "principal typing"?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:42:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1490a380612202242u78e9429dm7319aaf4c0aa8a28@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF87E2E99E.6BAB6D82-ON8525724B.00156B64-8525724B.0016ECC2@db.com>

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Thanks!

On 21/12/06, Jeff Polakow <jeff.polakow@db.com> wrote:
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>
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> Principal types, which ML has, are useful because, for a given context,
> there is a most general type for any typeable term. This is a useful
> property to have for languages which attempt type inference.



Could you give some concrete example of a type inference engine and a
typable term, but which does not have a principal type?

- Tom

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-21  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-20 21:53 Tom
2006-12-21  4:10 ` [Caml-list] " Jeff Polakow
2006-12-21  6:42   ` Tom [this message]
2006-12-21 21:02     ` Jeff Polakow
2006-12-21  7:27   ` Christophe Dehlinger
2006-12-21 21:07     ` Jeff Polakow

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