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From: "Milan Stanojević" <milanst@gmail.com>
To: "Frédéric Bour" <frederic.bour@lakaban.net>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GADT existential escape
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:22:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKR7PS-XxkwEZBCbSf3z0i0CkNiWEbLk1_cVjk1mTr_70Duo+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550B0441.6010801@lakaban.net>

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Frédéric Bour
<frederic.bour@lakaban.net> wrote:
> Indeed, open variants can have type parameters.
> But exceptions really are sugar over a non-parameterized open variant.

If your OCaml version supports open variants, then exceptions and open
variants are exactly the same.
For example, this is legal code:
type exn += Foo : 'a list -> exn

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-19 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-19  0:29 Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19  0:39 ` Milan Stanojević
2015-03-19  1:07   ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19  1:27     ` Milan Stanojević
2015-03-19 10:44       ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 11:02         ` Jeremy Yallop
2015-03-19 11:34           ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 13:22             ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 16:46             ` Milan Stanojević
2015-03-19 17:14               ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 17:15                 ` Frédéric Bour
2015-03-19 17:22                   ` Milan Stanojević [this message]
2015-03-19 17:41               ` Jeremy Yallop
2015-03-19 18:29                 ` Alain Frisch
2015-03-19 16:31           ` Milan Stanojević
2015-03-19 11:05         ` Jeremie Dimino
2015-03-19 11:34           ` Daniel Bünzli
2015-03-19 11:59             ` Jeremie Dimino
2015-03-20 13:50               ` Yaron Minsky

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