From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA32069 for caml-red; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:16:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA27548 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:15:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e8OJExT25854; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:14:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA26068; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:14:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: Pierre Weis Message-Id: <200009241914.VAA26068@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: Re: bottom types and threaded exits In-Reply-To: from Julian Assange at "Sep 24, 100 01:25:48 am" To: proff@iq.org (Julian Assange) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:14:59 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr [...] > Trying to define a type of int -> 'a naturally leads > to a compiler error of 'a being unbound. What about: # let rec loop x = loop (x + 1);; val loop : int -> 'a = This is a pretty convincing non-terminating computation, isn't it ? Pierre Weis INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/