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Nonoptional labeled arguments can be passed with '?'. This is confusing #5835

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vicuna opened this issue Nov 19, 2012 · 4 comments
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vicuna commented Nov 19, 2012

Original bug ID: 5835
Reporter: elnatan
Assigned to: @garrigue
Status: closed (set by @garrigue on 2012-12-27T03:16:34Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 3.12.0
Fixed in version: 4.01.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

I was surprised to find that the following works. I would have expected an error of some kind.

let f ~x = x + 1;;
let _ = f ?x:0;;

Is this a bug or a feature?

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vicuna commented Nov 20, 2012

Comment author: @garrigue

This is a bug.
Allowing it would be a contradiction.
For instance this code fails to type:
let g f = f ?x:0

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vicuna commented Dec 27, 2012

Comment author: @garrigue

Fix in trunk, at revision 13163.
Will not merge into 4.00 branch, since the previous behavior was not dangerous.

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vicuna commented Feb 18, 2013

Comment author: @damiendoligez

Note: this bug fix breaks lablgtk (tested on version 2.14.2 and 2.16.0).

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vicuna commented Feb 19, 2013

Comment author: @garrigue

Replaced the error by a warning, as this appears to break lots of code, and this is only a question of principality of inference (there is no semantical problem).
Committed in trunk, revision 13298.

(Also fixed lablgtk, of course; thanks for the report)

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