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How to do this properly with OCaml?
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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Matthieu Sozeau <mattam@m...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] How to do this properly with OCaml? |
Le 23 juil. 05 à 20:27, Berke Durak a écrit : > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:36:47AM -0700, Stephane Glondu wrote: > >> On Saturday 23 July 2005 06:16, Berke Durak wrote: >> >>> However I was wondering how feasible it would be to have a "any : >>> 'a" >>> value, that would return an (unspecified) value of any given type... >>> >> >> That seems to be dirty and would surely beak type safety. >> >> >>> This is clearly feasible for base types. >>> possible for tuples, records and functions of base types. >>> >> >> What do you mean? >> > > I mean that there could be a built-in, type-safe Ocaml function > that would > yield a valid, yet arbitrary value of any type. Find an inhabitant of `type t` (the empty type). -- mattam