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From: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Representation of different polymorphic variants guaranteed to be different?
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:54:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090708185415.GB11681@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090708183527.GC3432@colinux>

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:35:27PM +0200, Bruno Daniel wrote:
> How is it ensured that I get a <> b for a and b created as
> polymorphic variants from two different identifiers? Will pattern
> matching give wrong results if I accidentally choose two different
> identifiers translated to the same internal representation?

See this thread:
    http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2005/03/544288096a47d82ec870d01c8396f5fe.fr.html 

Short answer: collisions could theoretically occur, but are detected
at link time.

-- 
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-08 18:35 Bruno Daniel
2009-07-08 18:54 ` Eric Cooper [this message]
2009-07-08 19:32   ` [Caml-list] " Elnatan Reisner
2009-07-08 19:32   ` Bruno Daniel
2009-07-08 19:36   ` Frédéric van der Plancke

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