Agreed.  Such a comparison is useful for libraries which must work
with arbitrary datatypes but want to compare as finely as possible.  I
once wrote a small pure-O'Caml module to do just that, you
can download it at
http://users.wpi.edu/~squirrel/repos/ocamlrt/fr/fr/genEq.ml.  Caveat
emptor: it does not work on cyclic structures, and uses Obj
extensively so I cannot guarantee it won't crash.  It tries first
physical equality, then structural equality, so it is semantically
different from Caml's = operator in the case of floats.

- Chris

On 1/30/07, Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Serious suggestion:  I personally would be quite happy with extensional
> equality on ground values and intensional equality on function values.
>
> Jacques
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