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Re: Proposal for study: Add a categorical Initial type to ocaml
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- John Prevost
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Jacques Garrigue
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William Chesters
- Frank A. Christoph
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William Chesters
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Date: | 1999-10-13 (07:11) |
From: | Frank A. Christoph <christo@n...> |
Subject: | RE: Option types and O'Labl merger |
> > If you really think that having such costless options would be useful, > > it is the time to make pressure to have them included in the merger. > > "Could we have costless options please, if it's REALLY not going to > complicate the compiler too much?" I don't really have an opinion on "costless options", but it is worth noting that including them is going to change the runtime's data representation, undoubtedly breaking many people's C-interfacing code (unless they use CamlIDL, I guess). --FAC