On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:11:53PM +0900, Jacques GARRIGUE wrote:
> Then I suppose that
>    let f x x = 33
> should also cause a warning, because this has just the same
> semantics.

It's a bit more subtle than that.  OCaml 3.07 always picks the last
argument, and ignores the others.  Thus:

# let f x x = x;;
val f : 'a -> 'b -> 'b = <fun>
# let f x x x x = x;;
val f : 'a -> 'b -> 'c -> 'd -> 'd = <fun>

But a future version might pick the first argument, or one in the
middle, or one at random.  I can't find any guarantee in the manual
that the behaviour won't change, so this might cause a bug.

Rich.

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