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From: "Jacques Carette" <carette@mcmaster.ca>
To: "'Damien Doligez'" <damien.doligez@inria.fr>,
	"'caml users'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Single-case union types as strong typedefs
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:25:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000601c4ba9e$6f9b8a00$1b447182@cas.mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C73A5ABE-2688-11D9-9027-00039310CAE8@inria.fr>

> Once again, consider this:
> 
>    type foo = Constr of foo;;
>    let rec x = Constr x;;
> 
> If you eliminate the constructor, there's nothing left!
> 
> -- Damien

Isn't that correct though?  The value x is completely known statically, and
all computation on x can be done statically, so it is not necessary to have
any traces of x left at run-time.

Yes, I am assuming that a fair bit of partial evaluation is a good thing for
the compiler to do.

Jacques


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-23  1:49 Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23  3:31 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-10-23  3:39   ` David Brown
2004-10-23  5:00     ` skaller
2004-10-23 21:49       ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:24   ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:33     ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-24  3:00     ` John Prevost
2004-10-24  5:18     ` skaller
2004-10-24 22:52       ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-25 13:21 ` Damien Doligez
2004-10-25 14:25   ` Jacques Carette [this message]
2004-10-26 14:07     ` Damien Doligez
2004-10-26 15:05       ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 17:34         ` skaller
2004-10-26 20:02           ` [Caml-list] Combined compilation and linking Jon Harrop

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