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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Caml monomorphisation (was Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:01:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040928120136.GA32492@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.44.0409281155590.1122358-100000@ibm1>

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:10:39PM +0200, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote:
> > [Richard Jones] shows that:
> >
> > ;;;
> > let max a b =
> >     if a > b then a else b
> > in
> >     print_int (max 2 3)
> > ;;;
> >
> >
> > uses the polymorphic version of '>', even though the use of max here uses
> > only ints.
> 
> Why doesn't Caml compiler specialize the type of [max] ?

It seems to just be a shortcoming of the compiler.

Note that this was observed with 3.06, which is rather ancient version
of OCaml.  It may well work in 3.08.1.

Rich.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-28 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-27 19:08 [Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell John Goerzen
2004-09-27 20:24 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2004-09-27 21:34   ` Danny Yoo
2004-09-28  7:22     ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-09-28 18:02       ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-29 14:26         ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-29 14:20           ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-29 15:03           ` Dmitry Lomov
2004-09-28 10:10     ` [Caml-list] Caml monomorphisation (was Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell) Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-09-28 12:01       ` Richard Jones [this message]
2004-09-28 17:50       ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-28  1:56   ` [Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell skaller
2004-09-28  9:31   ` Keith Wansbrough
2004-09-28  9:55     ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2004-09-27 21:11 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-09-28  1:32 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-28  1:46 ` skaller
2004-09-28  8:27 ` Richard Jones

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