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From: Oleg <oleg@okmij.org>
To: edwin+ml-ocaml@etorok.net
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Clever typing for client-server communication?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:42:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150725124250.GA2259@Magus.sf-private> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B2A69F.2060104@etorok.net>


> > Once you have these types you might write type-level functions to
> > retrieve the components.   Here's a function that retrieves the 'src'
> > component:
> > 
> >    type 'a src = 's constraint 'a = < src: 's; .. >

> This is very useful to know, thanks!

> It'd be interesting to know how you come up with these solutions :)

This is probably a folklore, but it was mentioned on this list more than
a decade ago by Jacques Garrigue. We have used this trick extensively
in

        http://okmij.org/ftp/meta-programming/HPC.html#GE-generation

(see the description on p11 of the SCP-metamonads.pdf paper, and many
applications starting from p21)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-25 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-24 11:01 Markus Weißmann
2015-07-24 11:20 ` Nicolas Ojeda Bar
2015-07-24 18:41 ` Mikhail Mandrykin
2015-07-24 20:23 ` octachron
2015-07-24 20:25 ` Jeremy Yallop
2015-07-24 20:57   ` Török Edwin
2015-07-25 12:42     ` Oleg [this message]
2015-07-25 15:55       ` mandrykin
2015-08-08 21:39   ` Markus Mottl
2015-08-09 13:04     ` Jacques Garrigue

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