Mailing list for all users of the OCaml language and system.
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jerome Vouillon <vouillon@pps.jussieu.fr>
To: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to compare recursive types?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:20:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020425132027.GA4702@strontium.pps.jussieu.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CC656E1.5020108@ozemail.com.au>

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:55:29PM +1000, John Max Skaller wrote:
> How to compare recursive types?

You should definitively read "Recursive Subtyping Revealed" by
Vladimir Gapeyev, Michael Levin, and Benjamin Pierce.
(Available from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.html)

If you are only interested in equality, you can use the same algorithm
as for subtyping (equality is a preorder).  The complexity of this
algorithm can be improved from quadratic to (almost) linear by
exploiting the fact that type equality is an equivalence relation: the
algorithm uses a set of pairs of already encountered types, but you
can use a union-find datastructure instead.

-- Jerome
-------------------
To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/
Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-25 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-17  9:49 [Caml-list] Polymorphic variants John Max Skaller
2002-04-17 10:43 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-04-17 23:49   ` John Max Skaller
2002-04-18  1:23     ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-04-18  9:04       ` John Max Skaller
2002-04-24  6:55   ` [Caml-list] How to compare recursive types? John Max Skaller
2002-04-24  9:07     ` Andreas Rossberg
2002-04-24  9:26       ` Haruo Hosoya
2002-04-24 13:14       ` John Max Skaller
2002-04-24 15:04         ` Andreas Rossberg
2002-04-25  1:11           ` John Max Skaller
2002-04-25  4:41             ` John Max Skaller
2002-04-25  7:03               ` [Caml-list] How to compare recursive types? Solution! John Max Skaller
2002-04-25 13:31                 ` Jerome Vouillon
2002-04-27  4:11                   ` John Max Skaller
2002-04-25  8:54             ` [Caml-list] How to compare recursive types? Andreas Rossberg
2002-04-25 13:20     ` Jerome Vouillon [this message]
2002-04-27  3:43       ` John Max Skaller

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20020425132027.GA4702@strontium.pps.jussieu.fr \
    --to=vouillon@pps.jussieu.fr \
    --cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
    --cc=skaller@ozemail.com.au \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox