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From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Single-case union types as strong typedefs
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:21:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C73A5ABE-2688-11D9-9027-00039310CAE8@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aee06c9e041022184937006109@mail.gmail.com>

On Oct 23, 2004, at 03:49, Nathaniel Gray wrote:

>   type x = Foo y
>      --> type x = y  (* Only necessary if types are retained after
> type checking *)
>   Foo x
>      --> x
>   match x with Foo y -> expr
>      --> let y = x in expr

Once again, consider this:

   type foo = Constr of foo;;
   let rec x = Constr x;;

If you eliminate the constructor, there's nothing left!

-- Damien

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-23  1:49 Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23  3:31 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-10-23  3:39   ` David Brown
2004-10-23  5:00     ` skaller
2004-10-23 21:49       ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:24   ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:33     ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-24  3:00     ` John Prevost
2004-10-24  5:18     ` skaller
2004-10-24 22:52       ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-25 13:21 ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2004-10-25 14:25   ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 14:07     ` Damien Doligez
2004-10-26 15:05       ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 17:34         ` skaller
2004-10-26 20:02           ` [Caml-list] Combined compilation and linking Jon Harrop

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