From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99CABBB81 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:29:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iB9BT52h009394 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:29:05 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA24497 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:29:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iB9BT2XQ021545 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:29:03 +0100 Received: from localhost (suiren [130.54.16.25]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iB9BSv3U014899; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:28:57 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:28:42 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20041209.202842.132053415.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> To: michael.walter@gmail.com Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] environment idiom From: Jacques Garrigue In-Reply-To: <877e9a170412082202790e2cfb@mail.gmail.com> References: <9410EC84C0872141B27A2726613EF45D02A52E08@psmrdcex01.psm.pin.safeco.com> <20041209.134735.79249569.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> <877e9a170412082202790e2cfb@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.64 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41B83701.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41B836FE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 o'caml:01 statically:01 statically:01 encodings:01 idiom:01 dynamically:01 jacques:01 jacques:01 partially:02 variables:02 variables:02 parameters:02 garrigue:03 garrigue:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: From: Michael Walter > Is there such thing as implicit parameters in O'caml, basically > variables with dynamic extent. Could be (partially?) statically > checked, too, no? There's no such thing (at least in statically checked form.) The technic I gave in my previous mail is the closest you can do with full static check. There are various encodings for dynamically scoped variables, but this is another story. Jacques Garrigue