From: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
Cc: Caml-list List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] typing problem with sexplib and mutually recursive polymorphic types
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:43:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8560b80903110943p72968b3dr74631276b400ba58@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D7B79848-190B-4FCC-885C-241AB2013066@inria.fr>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:16, Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr> wrote:
> That is not quite true any more. For example, I changed the
> type-checker a few years ago to start with the user-provided type
> when typing a let rec, in order to be able to debug my large
> recursive definitions. Note that I didn't do that from scrach,
> I used an infrastructure that was already present for seeding the
> type inference in some cases. IIRC, it is there for some object-
> oriented reason.
Interesting, this change seems to have passed unobserved by me and is
certainly a great debugging aid. Does this mean that eventually
polymorphic recursion might be supported by OCaml? What's still
missing for that feature?
Regards,
Markus
--
Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info markus.mottl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 2:45 Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-11 4:25 ` [Caml-list] " Markus Mottl
2009-03-11 6:11 ` yoann padioleau
2009-03-11 14:20 ` Markus Mottl
2009-03-11 14:32 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2009-03-11 14:44 ` Markus Mottl
2009-03-11 16:16 ` Damien Doligez
2009-03-11 16:43 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2009-03-11 19:03 ` Till Varoquaux
2009-03-12 1:42 ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-03-11 23:08 ` Yoann Padioleau
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