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Date: | 2002-08-27 (13:04) |
From: | Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons <Diego-Olivier.FERNANDEZ-PONS@c...> |
Subject: | Re: Polymorphic recursion 9Was Re: [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list) |
John Max Skaller a écrit : > I'm confused. I think you mean *type inference* is difficult > if you want polymorphic recursion? I'am confused too. We do want type inference, do we not ? And polymorphic recursion makes type inference undecidable. - Haskell allows full polymorphic recursion but requires providing explicitly a type signature (in fact, in Haskell you always provide type annotations even if it is not required) - Caml now allows a restricted kind of polymorphic recursion but keeps most of the type inference (there were a few constructions in Caml which already required type annotations, I don't know yet how polymorphic methods interfer with type inference, I suppose the Caml team can answer that question) Diego Olivier ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners