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From: Joseph Young <ocaml@optimojoe.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Conditionals based on phantom types
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:07:04 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1008020903440.30209@myhome> (raw)

Hi,
 	Is there any way to write a conditional based on the type 
information of a value?  Specifically, if we use phantom types to write a 
module such as

module Units : sig
     type 'a t
     val to_feet : float -> [`Feet ] t
     val to_meters : float -> [`Meters] t
     val add : 'a t -> 'a t -> 'a t
     val print : 'a t -> unit
end = struct
     type 'a t = float
     let to_feet x=x
     let to_meters x=x
     let add x y = x +. y
     let print x = Printf.printf "%f (units)" x
end;;

is there anyway to modify the print statement to correctly denote which 
units are used?

 	Thanks.

Joe


             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02  7:07 Joseph Young [this message]
2010-08-02  7:49 ` [Caml-list] " Lukasz Stafiniak
2010-08-02  8:02   ` bluestorm
2010-08-03  2:46     ` Joseph Young
2010-08-03  6:15       ` Joseph Young
2010-08-03  6:57         ` bluestorm
2010-08-04  2:41           ` Joseph Young
2010-08-03 15:47     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-08-03 15:39 ` Goswin von Brederlow

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