On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:08:13AM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> From: Christoph Bauer <c_bauer@informatik.uni-kl.de>
> 
> > ocamls type inference uses information of optionl arguments. This
> > results in a strange behaviour.
> 
> Brian Rogoff already answered this one. Do you seriously expect a
> type-safe compiler to simply ignore the type of the default value :-)

In principle you can imagine type system, where function have different
type depending on whether it has default argument supplied. For example:

do_with_conv : ~conv:('a -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b [default conv: 'a -> 'a]

or something like this.

-- 
: Michal Moskal :: http://www.kernel.pl/~malekith : GCS {C,UL}++++$ a? !tv
: When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson : {E-,w}-- {b++,e}>+++ h

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