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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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Frank Atanassow, Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University
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  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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