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From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@e...>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Typing problem with polymorphic variants 

On Tuesday, Apr 1, 2003, at 20:34 Europe/Helsinki, Alessandro Baretta 
wrote:

> This just baffles me.
>
> > Values do not match:
> >   val feature :
> >     [> `Clear | `Length of int | `Pitch of int
> >               | `Width of 'a] -> string
> > is not included in
> >   val feature : [> `Clear] -> string

Consider what would happen if you tried to pass a `Length of float, 
which is acceptable according to the latter signature.

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