]> > Hello, > > Is it a bug or a well-known feature that the above program does not emit > a warning (because "f x" should have type unit in the body of "g") ? > > ===== > let f x = x > let g x = f x; 1 > (* let _ = g 2 *) > ==== I'm not familiar with the internals of the compiler, but what I suppose is happening is that it tries to unify the type of "f x" and "unit", and this succeeds because "f x" has type 'a, which can be unified with anything. The meaning of "a;b" seems to be let _ = a in b rather than let () = a in b. But like I said, these are suppositions. Cheers, Matthieu > > Best regards, > Julien Signoles > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs