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From: Remi Vanicat <remi.vanicat@gmail.com>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cyclic types
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:42:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b8a914205012905427c79cd85@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f8e92aa0501290415321a8e46@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:15:43 +0200, Radu Grigore <radugrigore@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are cyclic types forbidden?
> 
> I was forced to use the definition:
>   type forest = Forest of forest StringMap.t | Empty
> where I would have rather used
>   type forest = forest StringMap.t
> The error is:
>   The type abbreviation tree is cyclic

You can use the -rectypes of the ocaml compiler or toplevel to allow
cyclic type.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-29 12:15 Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 12:34 ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 13:42 ` Remi Vanicat [this message]
2005-01-29 17:12   ` [Caml-list] " brogoff
2005-01-29 17:33     ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-29 23:47       ` Damien Doligez
2005-01-30  5:56         ` brogoff
2005-01-30  6:05         ` Radu Grigore
2005-01-30  7:19           ` William Lovas
2005-01-30 10:33       ` Xavier Leroy
2005-01-30 11:44         ` sejourne_kevin
2005-02-01  9:27         ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-01-29 21:02     ` skaller
2005-01-30  6:46       ` brogoff

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