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From: Tom <tom.primozic@gmail.com>
To: "Christophe TROESTLER" <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>
Cc: "O'Caml Mailing List" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Equality of functional values
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:08:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1490a380701301308s4c03112fpc450895065fed218@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070130.220141.72363004.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>

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>
>  Why not take the suggestion of Gerd Stolpmann and declare
>
>   let ( = ) x y = Pervasives.compare x y = 0
>
> at the beginning of your files ?



Because it fails on functions (if functions are the same, it returns true,
otherwise it raises an exception...

# let f x y = x + y;;
val f : int -> int -> int = <fun>
# compare f f;;
- : int = 0
# compare (f 0) (f 0);;
Exception: Invalid_argument "equal: functional value".

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-30 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29 21:04 Simon Frost
2007-01-29 21:11 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-01-29 21:23   ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-29 21:59 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-01-30  8:17   ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-01-30  8:45   ` David MENTRE
2007-01-30 13:24 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-01-30 13:55   ` skaller
2007-01-30 14:21     ` Brian Hurt
2007-01-30 15:21     ` Jeff Polakow
2007-01-30 15:49       ` Jacques Carette
2007-01-30 17:23         ` Chris King
2007-01-30 20:18           ` Tom
2007-01-30 20:30             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-01-30 20:41               ` Fernando Alegre
2007-01-30 21:01                 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-30 21:08                   ` Tom [this message]
2007-01-30 21:46                     ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-30 22:05                       ` Fernando Alegre
2007-01-30 23:13                         ` skaller
2007-01-30 23:06     ` Andrej Bauer
2007-01-31  0:15       ` Jacques Carette
2007-01-31  7:03         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-31 12:54           ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Carette
2007-01-31  0:15       ` [Caml-list] " skaller

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