Interesting. Can I assume that, if my type is boxed (in this case, a
polymorphic variant), I can successfully convert it to Obj.t and back ?

Thanks,
 David

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 15:23 +0100, Damien Doligez wrote:
> If that was the whole story, Obj.magic would be pretty safe.  But
> there are exceptions to the uniform representation of values, and
> they make Obj.magic really hard to use.
> 
> The most important exception is floating-point numbers.  They are
> not always represented as one word each, and that means even
> Obj.repr is unsafe.

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