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[Caml-list] On the equality of functional values

Alessandro Baretta
- David Brown
- David Monniaux
  - Alessandro Baretta
    - jeanmarc.eber@l...
    - Pierre Weis
- Remi VANICAT

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From:	David Brown <caml-list@d...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] On the equality of functional values

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 03:10:59PM +0100, Alessandro Baretta wrote:

> # (=) = (=) ;;
> Exception: Invalid_argument "equal: functional value".
> # let x = (=) in x = x ;;
> - : bool = true

# let x = (=) and y = (=) in x = y;;
Exception: Invalid_argument "equal: functional value".

I suspect that the x = x is getting handled specially.

Dave Brown
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