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From: Francois Rouaix <frouaix@liquidmarket.com>
To: Vyskocil Vladimir <vyskocil@math.unice.fr>
Cc: Caml list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Constante NIL
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 09:16:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199906011616.JAA24995@fiji01.liquidmarket.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 May 1999 16:20:40 +0200." <37529AB8.B306AD5F@math.unice.fr>

> N'est t'il pas concevable de rajouter a Objectif Caml une constante
> NIL, UNDEF ou je sais pas trop comment la nommer dont la valeur serait
> '_a. Ceci permettrait d'initialiser "par defaut", par exemples,  les
> variables d'instances d'une classe lorsque l'on ne possede aucune
> valeur par defaut du bon type.


In this particular case (dummy initialization value for a CamlTk 
widget), you could use Widget.default_toplevel, or Widget.dummy.
It's inelegant and a bit dangerous, but neither as bad as using
a Widget.widget option type, or as drastic as adding null pointers
in the language.

--f





  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-02 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-05-31 14:20 Vyskocil Vladimir
1999-06-01 16:16 ` Francois Rouaix [this message]
1999-06-02  7:27 ` Jean-Francois Monin
1999-06-02 19:02 ` Xavier Leroy
1999-06-14 20:48   ` Pierre Weis

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