Re: question on recursive types

[Jerome Vouillon <Jerome.Vouillon@inria.fr>]

Hello,

On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 08:47:55PM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote:
> I am trying to find a useful approach for sending streams of messages
> to objects and have come across the following problem (code example):
> 
>   class transformer = object (self)
>     method apply_strm s =
>       try while true do (Stream.next s) self s done with Stream.Failure -> ()
>   end
[...]
> Unfortunately, this results in a recursive type, because the elements of
> the stream are functions that have to accept the same type of streams
> as parameter.
[...]

The usual trick to avoid explicitely recursive types is to use a type
constructor:

    type 'a t = Stream of ('a -> 'a t -> unit) Stream.t;;
    class transformer = object (self)
      method apply_strm s =
        try
          while true do (Stream.next s) self (Stream s) done
        with Stream.Failure -> ()
    end;;

-- Jérôme