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Maximum non-constant constructors

Tom Hawkins
- Alain Frisch
  - Tom Hawkins
    - Stefan Monnier
  - Richard Jones
    - Jean-Christophe Filliatre
      - Eric Cooper
        
        Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
        
        Richard Jones
        
        Jon Harrop
        
        Jacques Garrigue

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Maximum non-constant constructors

Tom Hawkins wrote:
> I just discovered another limitation: the maximum number of non-constant 
> constructors is 246.
> 
> My modified OCaml parser generator (ocamlyacc with ints -- see previous 
> post) is producing a parser that consumes 342 different tokens types.
> 
> Are there any ways to bypass this limitation?

Polymorphic variants.

-- Alain