From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@bononia.it>

> It seems to me that the "%identity" feature, as in
> 
>   external unsafe_cast : 'a obj -> 'b obj = "%identity"
> 
> is undocumented. Am I wrong? If not is there any particular reason for
> so? According to http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200208/msg00034.html is
> not meant to be used by the end user, but if it's better than Obj.magic
> and used by lablgtk I see no reason to not mention it in the
> "Interfacing C with Objective Caml" chapter of the OCaml documentation.
> Maybe with a huge disclaimer ...

It is equivalent to Obj.magic, which uses the same external.
The only interest is that you can choose to give it a type more
restrictive than Obj.magic, while still being an external.
This way %identity completely disappears during compilation.

I suppose that as Obj.magic is not documented, this is not documented
either. 

Jacques Garrigue

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