On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:57:28AM +0100, David Monniaux wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Pierre Weis wrote:
> 
> > > 	Why is there no creation function which does not take a default
> > > value for filling the array?
> 
> Perhaps the solution is to have an improved implementation of the 'a
> option type, where a NULL pointer would mean "None" and anything else
> would be the element of type 'a.
> 
> Is there anything wrong with this approach? [except that it could break
> some interfaced C code that relies on NULL pointers in "private" types..]

The problem is that you need to be able to differentiate None from
Some None, Some (Some None), ...

-- Jerome