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From: Jim Farrand <jim.farrand@gmail.com>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: 'Chantal KELLER' <chantal.keller@wanadoo.fr>,
	'caml-list' <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Constructors are not functions
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:14:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACB42BC.1050603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003901ca4682$d47f8460$7d7e8d20$@metastack.com>

David Allsopp wrote:

> I think it would be possible to simulate the SML behaviour in OCaml using camlp4 (if you assume that for [type foo = Bar of int] that future unbound references to [bar] are interpreted as [fun x -> bar x] instead of an error)

I believe this is already the behaviour under the revised syntax, so 
this is definitely possible.

Regards,
Jim

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-06 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-06 12:01 Chantal KELLER
2009-10-06 12:19 ` [Caml-list] " Philippe Wang
2009-10-06 12:38   ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 13:38     ` Richard Jones
2009-10-10 11:49     ` blue storm
2009-10-06 12:45 ` David Allsopp
2009-10-06 12:46   ` David Allsopp
2009-10-06 13:14   ` Jim Farrand [this message]
2009-10-06 13:51     ` Michel Mauny
2009-10-06 13:15   ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 14:04     ` David Allsopp
2009-10-06 14:51       ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-06 15:24       ` Richard Jones
2009-10-06 16:31         ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-10-08 12:37       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-09  6:29         ` David Allsopp
2009-10-10  6:16           ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-06 13:18 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-10-06 15:50 ` Jérémie Dimino
2009-10-06 21:55   ` blue storm

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