From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA03656; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:28:47 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 PAA03652 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:28:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3TDSjf22452 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:28:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from cuoq@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA03648 for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:28:45 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:28:45 +0200 From: Pascal Cuoq To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Polymorphic Variants and Number Parameterized Typ es Message-ID: <20020429152845.A3485@pauillac.inria.fr> Reply-To: Pascal.Cuoq@inria.fr References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from neelk@cswcasa.com on Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:55:16AM -0400 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Neel Krishnaswami wrote: > There's no recursion in the module system because that would break > the termination guarantee. If you think of modules as records, and > functors as lambda abstractions, you can see that the module system > defines a simply-typed lambda calculus. As you've noticed with C++, > adding recursion to it would mean you can write nonterminating module > expressions. (All this is wonderfully clearly explained in the paper, > "A modular module system".) I'm not sure about "simply-typed". Did the situation change since that of http://caml.inria.fr/archives/199907/msg00027.html ? Pascal ------------------- 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