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The name of types introduced by (type foo) are not used for the inferred type variables #5450

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vicuna opened this issue Dec 23, 2011 · 2 comments
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vicuna commented Dec 23, 2011

Original bug ID: 5450
Reporter: pilki
Assigned to: @garrigue
Status: closed (set by @garrigue on 2011-12-27T09:01:47Z)
Resolution: fixed
Severity: feature
Fixed in version: 3.13.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Child of: #5444
Monitored by: @protz

Bug description

If you write
<<<
let f (x:'foo) = x

the inferred type is
val f : 'foo -> 'foo

but if you write
<<<
let g (type bar) (x:bar) = x

you end up with
val g : 'a -> 'a
instead of
val g : 'bar -> 'bar

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vicuna commented Dec 24, 2011

Comment author: @garrigue

As mentioned in #5445, this is a consequence of dropping variable names upon instantiation.
We probably need to do something in this case, as we clearly want to keep those explicit names, at least in the current function definition.

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vicuna commented Dec 27, 2011

Comment author: @garrigue

Fixed in revision 11958.

Note that this also solves the same problem for explicit polymorphism:

let id : 't. 't -> 't = fun x -> x;;

val id : 't -> 't =

let id : type foo. foo -> foo = fun x -> x;;

val id : 'foo -> 'foo =

Potential glitch (but not new):

let magic : type t t'. t -> t' = Obj.magic;;

val magic : 't -> 't' =

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