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[Caml-list] On the equality of functional values
- Alessandro Baretta
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| From: | Alessandro Baretta <alex@b...> |
| Subject: | [Caml-list] On the equality of functional values |
I have been experimenting with equal signs, and I noticed
that the equality operator (=) behaves in a strange way with
respect to functional values.
Objective Caml version 3.06
# (=) = (=) ;;
Exception: Invalid_argument "equal: functional value".
# let x = (=) in x = x ;;
- : bool = true
The first line seems to imply that no comparisons are
possible between functional values. However, the second line
I typed does not raise the same exception. This seems to
imply that comparisons are allowed between functional
values, too.
Now, which of two hypotheses is correct?
Alex
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