> From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: 22 Mar 2004 14:31:16 +1100
> 
> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:34, Michael Vanier wrote:
> 
> > If I understand you correctly, then you're arguing that *all* my "core
> > types" should be implemented using polymorphic variants.
> 
> I use Polymorphic Variants almost exclusively in Felix.
> They're more flexible but also give nastier error messages.
> 
> The main downside is that to make covariant subtyping
> you need to use fixpoints, which is fine for a single
> parameter but unworkable for a more complex term
> structure.

Forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean by this?

Mike

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