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From: Romain Bardou <bardou@lsv.ens-cachan.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Recursive polymorphic variants
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:39:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F84460D.1010209@lsv.ens-cachan.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK=fH+hzpMQfnxe6Be-G5A_r-TpVZcyaoi3nwEPndE8dpt=7CQ@mail.gmail.com>

Le 10/04/2012 15:57, David House a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Gabriel Kerneis<kerneis@pps.jussieu.fr>  wrote:
>> Is there any work-around?
>
> Depending on your requirements, just wrapping up the recursive copy of
> [t] in another constructor might do:
>
> type t = [ `A of [ `B | `C of t ]]
>
> I don't know why your original example is disallowed.
>

I think the semantic of [t|...] is just to syntactically replace t by 
its definition, which is not possible if the definition is not done yet.

Cheers,

-- 
Romain Bardou

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-10 13:51 Gabriel Kerneis
2012-04-10 13:57 ` David House
2012-04-10 14:39   ` Romain Bardou [this message]

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