From: John Whitley <whitley@cse.buffalo.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: OLabl optional arguments and higher order functions
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:35:40 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14064.39685.480989.489383@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU> (raw)
Consider the following example, from OLabl 2.02:
# let ack ?:x [< 0 >] :y = x * y;;
val ack : ?x:int -> y:int -> int = <fun>
# let hack funarg = funarg x:4 y:5;;
val hack : (x:int -> y:int -> 'a) -> 'a = <fun>
# hack ack;;
Characters 5-8:
This expression has type ?x:int -> y:int -> int but is here used with
type
x:int -> y:int -> 'a
This seems like a bug. Intuitively, labels x: and ?x: should unify.
If not, I would appreciate a brief explanation as to why not...
Forcibly replacing the optional argument with the same label via fun
works just fine:
# hack (fun :x -> ack :x);;
- : int = 20
Thanks for any insights,
John
next reply other threads:[~1999-03-18 9:38 UTC|newest]
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1999-03-18 6:35 John Whitley [this message]
1999-03-24 1:38 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
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