Re: [Caml-list] Polymorphic Variants

[Tom <tom.primozic@gmail.com>]

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On 16/01/07, Seth J. Fogarty <sfogarty@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2) When I have different overlapping kinds of data, with a common root
> and common parent, and functions that are only defined on certain
> branches of the 'type tree.' This would be the hardest to replicate.
>

Could this be replicated by either
using overloaded non-polymorphic variants, meaning that say Int of int can
be shared by many types (almost like polymorphic variants, just that it is
declared, and thus (at least I believe so) more typesafe)

using records with overloaded fields and subtyping, so that you could have:
type top = {common of string}
type one_level_deep = {top | my_only of int}

type independent = {my_only of string}
so this would be possible:
let to_str x -> x.common

to_str {common = "first"}; to_str {common = "second"; my_only = 0}
?

- Tom

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