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* Ocaml-1.06: type system changes
@ 1997-11-20 16:23 Jason Hickey
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From: Jason Hickey @ 1997-11-20 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The type system seems to have changed in OCaml 1.06.  The following code
no longer compiles (it compiled in ocaml-1.05):

    type x = x option

Here's the complaint:

% ocamlc -c x.ml
File "x.ml", line 1, characters 4-17:
The type abbreviation x is cyclic

This doesn't seem like a problem with the type theory, since the type
"x" should probably be isomorphic to the natural numbers.  Is there a
reason for the failure?

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Jason Hickey                    Email: jyh@cs.cornell.edu
Department of Computer Science  Tel: (607) 255-4392
Cornell University





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