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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Cc: alex@barettadeit.com, caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>,
	luca@barettadeit.com, ernesto@barettadeit.com,
	dome@barettadeit.com, info@gerd-stolpmann.de
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Dummy polymorphic constructors
Date: 17 Dec 2004 20:03:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103274204.15260.92.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217.101039.122623912.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 12:10, Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> > type empty = [ ]

> Maybe this should be a typing error rather than a syntactic one, to
> make the intention clearer.

> Empty sum types are not allowed, because, while they are not really
> dangerous, they may delay type errors.

How about: make it an error, unless -rectypes is specified.
In that case allow it. (Seems sensible to allow three cases:
(a) error (b) warning (c) no warning .. but I can't think
of how to provide that ..)

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-16 19:22 Alex Baretta
2004-12-16 22:38 ` [Caml-list] " John Prevost
2004-12-17  7:42   ` Alex Baretta
2004-12-17  7:59   ` skaller
2004-12-17  1:10 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-12-17  9:03   ` skaller [this message]

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