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Question on writing efficient Ocaml.

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From:	skaller <skaller@u...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Question on writing efficient Ocaml.

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 16:26 +0000, Jon Harrop wrote:

> The code is also needlessly verbose and inefficient. There's no point in 
> declaring sum types with one contructor:
> 
> type posn = Posn of int * int;;

Doesn't Ocaml optimise the constructor away in this case?

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