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From: Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] More existential escapes (or possibly first class
 polymorphism)

On 20 March 2015 at 16:29, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> Is there some other wizardry on offer which can allow the polymorphic nature
> of [f] to be inferred?

Unfortunately not.  OCaml doesn't infer polymorphic types for function
parameters.