From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: n8gray@gmail.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Single-case union types as strong typedefs
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:39:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041023033915.GA22739@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041023.123139.106410806.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:31:39PM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> The problem you describe only occurs when your single constructor has
> only one argument.
> Indeed, this would be nice to have the overhead compiled away.
> I don't remember whether there was a concrete reason not to.
Another reason is that is breaks compatibility with existing C bindings, or
at least potentially does.
Dave
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-23 1:49 Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 3:31 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-10-23 3:39 ` David Brown [this message]
2004-10-23 5:00 ` skaller
2004-10-23 21:49 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:24 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:33 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-24 3:00 ` John Prevost
2004-10-24 5:18 ` skaller
2004-10-24 22:52 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-25 13:21 ` Damien Doligez
2004-10-25 14:25 ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 14:07 ` Damien Doligez
2004-10-26 15:05 ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 17:34 ` skaller
2004-10-26 20:02 ` [Caml-list] Combined compilation and linking Jon Harrop
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