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[Caml-list] Sumtypes of records

Christophe Poucet
- Ville-Pertti Keinonen
  - Chris Hecker
    - Ville-Pertti Keinonen
      - Ville-Pertti Keinonen
    - Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
      - Chris Hecker
        
        Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
        
        John Max Skaller

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@e...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Sumtypes of records


>  x).  Incidentally, if the record weren't indirect, Bar x could be 
> Obj.magic-compatible with x, but that's just a detail of the 
> implementation...

Correcting myself - that wouldn't work because you also have to be able 
to write Bar x -> Bar x...

So a sum type of a record is inevitably indirect.

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