From: Frank Atanassow <franka@cs.uu.nl>
To: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
Cc: jay@kldp.org, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Redefinition doesn't work
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:16:19 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14846.54323.673277.194843@silvester.cs.uu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010311106.MAA30612@pauillac.inria.fr>
Pierre Weis writes:
> > when user redefines some function, isn't it exactly the user's intention
> > to redefine all the bindings already defined not only those following that
> > redefinition?
>
> No, I guess it is not the intention of the user, since he does not
> know the set of bindings that uses the function he is redefining.
Maybe I missed it, but one relevant thing I did not see mentioned in this
discussion is the fact that if a value x is rebound, and the type of the
new x differs from that of the old, then some values whose implementation
(definition) depend on x may become ill-typed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-31 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200010300739.IAA13016@pauillac.inria.fr>
2000-10-30 23:38 ` Jaeyoun Chung
2000-10-31 11:06 ` Pierre Weis
2000-10-31 11:52 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-10-31 16:47 ` Pierre Weis
2000-10-31 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2000-11-02 15:42 ` Pierre Weis
2000-11-03 3:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2000-11-03 8:44 ` Good programming languages (Was: Redefinition doesn't work) Mattias Waldau
2000-11-03 15:27 ` bcpierce
2000-11-06 0:17 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-11-08 18:42 ` Markus Mottl
2000-11-09 16:20 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-11-10 10:06 ` Markus Mottl
2000-11-13 7:48 ` Stephan Houben
2000-11-10 19:06 ` Remi VANICAT
2000-11-06 6:17 ` Francisco Reyes
2000-11-07 17:36 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-10-31 14:16 ` Frank Atanassow [this message]
2000-10-31 17:07 ` Redefinition doesn't work Pierre Weis
2000-10-31 17:26 ` LINUX MANDRAKE -> CAMLTK? mlf
2000-11-02 20:21 ` Pierre Weis
2000-11-02 22:45 Redefinition doesn't work Ruchira Datta
2000-11-03 9:13 ` Pierre Weis
2000-11-03 10:09 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-11-03 16:56 ` Pierre Weis
2000-11-03 17:36 ` Michel Mauny
2000-11-05 11:15 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-11-06 21:30 ` Bruce Hoult
2000-11-03 16:58 ` Pierpaolo BERNARDI
2000-11-06 9:29 ` Stephan Houben
2000-11-03 17:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2000-11-05 11:16 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-31 19:11 Ruchira Datta
2000-11-02 18:05 ` Trevor Jim
2000-10-28 7:32 Mattias Waldau
2000-10-28 16:37 ` Pierre Weis
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