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Constructors are not functions

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Constructors are not functions

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 15:04:02 David Allsopp wrote:
> That's not the case at all - there'd be no reason not to interpret [bar] as
> [fun x y -> Bar(x, y)] for [Bar of int * int].

The reason is that it is a PITA. :-)

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