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From: Jacques GARRIGUE <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: More confusion with mutually recursive type definitions
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:57:49 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990816165749X.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:51:18 +0200" <19990816095118.02091@pauillac.inria.fr>

> OK, so I understand the following error message:
> 
>   # type 'a t = 'a and u = int t and v = bool t;;
>   This type bool should be an instance of type int
> 
> But then, why is the following declaration accepted?
> 
>   # type 'a t = 'a and u = A of int t and v = B of bool t;;
>   type 'a t = 'a
>   type u = | A of int t
>   type v = | B of bool t
> 
> I am still confused...

And ought to be... this is a bug:

        Objective Caml version 2.02

# type 'a t = 'a constraint 'a = int and u = A of int t and v = B of bool t;;
Uncaught exception: Ctype.Unify(_)

Is it already corrected ?

	Jacques
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-08-22 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-04 13:52 Weird behavior " Francois Pottier
1999-08-12 13:17 ` Hendrik Tews
1999-08-13  1:42 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
1999-08-16  6:31   ` Francois Pottier
1999-08-16  7:08     ` Jacques GARRIGUE
1999-08-16  7:51       ` More confusion " Francois Pottier
1999-08-16  7:57         ` Jacques GARRIGUE [this message]
1999-08-27 11:32     ` Weird behavior " Jerome Vouillon
1999-08-27 10:12   ` Jerome Vouillon

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