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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Strange parsing of with-clauses
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:41:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy8gk4f6k.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041129.180429.38700401.andrieu@ijm.jussieu.fr>

> definition. `E of string * string' defines an exception with two
> arguments of type string, which has a different representation than an
> exception with one argument of type "tuple of strings". The latter
> should be defined as `E of (string * string)'. There's the same issue
> with variant types (but not the polymorphic ones !).

I think this is another place where Haskell got it right: make those
constructors curried so that it's obvious that it's not carrying a tuple.


        Stefan


      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-29 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-29 16:26 Richard Jones
2004-11-29 16:46 ` [Caml-list] " Alex Baretta
2004-11-29 17:04 ` Olivier Andrieu
2004-11-29 19:41   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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