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
next prev parent 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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