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From: Peng Zang <peng.zang@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: specifying the type of an argument with more than one #classpath
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:52:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803052052.10651.peng.zang@gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi,

I am aware that when specifying the type of an argument to a function, one can 
use the "#classpath" notation to specify "any subtype of classpath".

Eg:

class type foo = object
  method foo : string
end;;

# let takesomefoo (x:#foo) = x;;
val takesomefoo : (#foo as 'a) -> 'a = <fun>


However, I cannot figure out how to specify more than one such constraint.  
Eg. I want to specify an argument that is foo-able and bar-able like this:

class type bar = object
  method bar : string
end

# let takesomefooable_and_barable (x:#foo #bar) = x;;
The type constructor bar expects 0 argument(s),
but is here applied to 1 argument(s)


Which shows I'm clearly not syntactically expressing this correctly.  I 
checked the manual and it doesn't seem possible...  How do I do this or 
workaround it?  I am familiar with class definitions which allow you to do 
this:

class ['a] foobar (x:'a) = object
  constraint 'a = #foo
  constraint 'a = #bar
  method getx = x
end;;


But I don't see how to specify such constraints in a normal function on the 
type of an argument.

Is there some simple trick people have found for specifying various type 
constraints on arguments?


Thanks in advance,

Peng
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             reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-06  1:52 Peng Zang [this message]
2008-03-06  1:56 ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2008-03-06  2:04   ` Peng Zang
2008-03-06  2:16 ` Eric Cooper
2008-03-06 12:02   ` Peng Zang

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