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From: Fabrice Marchant <fabricemarchant@free.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] functions' recursive construction
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:36:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080707203659.41f107de@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C3DD7276-23D5-41BE-A272-7579586A5559@gmail.com>

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:18:45 +0200
Christian Lindig <lindig@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Fabrice Marchant wrote:
> > (I think the answer is 'No') Could you shed light on this ?
> 
> Farbrice,
> 
> I think you are right I but can't give a formal argument, only some  
> intuition: you can't provide a static type for the function you want.  
> The type of the function would depend on the integer value you only  
> know at runtime. Such value-dependent types are not supported by  
> OCaml's type system.

  Thanks a lot Christian for these clear explanations. So they confirm William's answer.

Regards,

Fabrice


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-22 23:17 Damien Lefortier
2007-05-22 23:21 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-05-22 23:31   ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-05-22 23:32     ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-05-22 23:41       ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-23  6:25     ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2008-07-07 18:01 ` Fabrice Marchant
     [not found]   ` <a58674cc0807071304x1640d670sde3045a0920a5922@mail.gmail.com>
2008-07-07 18:28     ` Fabrice Marchant
2008-07-07 20:40       ` Jeremy Yallop
     [not found]   ` <C3DD7276-23D5-41BE-A272-7579586A5559@gmail.com>
2008-07-07 18:36     ` Fabrice Marchant [this message]
2008-07-07 20:25   ` Jeremy Yallop
2008-07-07 19:11     ` Fabrice Marchant
2008-07-07 22:48       ` asmadeus77
2008-07-08  9:24       ` Daniel Bünzli

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