From: Simon Helsen <helsen@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
Cc: Pierre CASTERAN <Pierre.Casteran@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Weak types ?
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 17:31:32 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.96.980209172455.14334H-100000@marvin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199802091600.RAA16195@pauillac.inria.fr>
> > I suppose the following problem concerns "weak" types, but i don't see
> > the reason (I have no assignment at all in this definitions !)
>
> This is an excerpt from the ``expert'' part of the Caml FAQ
>
> that explains the problem, its solution in Caml, and why it is considered a
> good solution.
yes, but it doesn't say much on the history of the problem. The Paulson
book does, but doesn't mention Caml. What I wonder is when Caml
adopted value polymorphism, what system was used before that and whether
the INRIA researchers did seek for (perhaps alternative) solutions
themselves. In the Standard ML community, the standard reference to this
problem is a paper of Andrew Wright (1995)...
Simon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-10 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-03 15:46 Pierre CASTERAN
1998-02-04 19:07 ` Simon Helsen
1998-02-05 16:05 ` Juan J. Quintela
1998-02-09 16:00 ` Pierre Weis
1998-02-09 16:31 ` Simon Helsen [this message]
1998-02-10 18:51 ` Pierre Weis
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