meaning of underscores

Goffinet (goffinet@cit-novell.univ-st-etienne.fr)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:20:50 +0100

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:20:50 +0100
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
From: Goffinet <goffinet@cit-novell.univ-st-etienne.fr>
Subject: meaning of underscores

Sorry another silly question!

if you d=E9fine a "compose" function (compose g f returne g o f),=
and
ask for=20

compose compose compose;;

you get the expected types in the answer, but each of them is
prefixed by an underscore:

- : ('_a -> '_b) -> ('_c -> '_d -> '_a) -> '_c -> '_d -> '_b =3D <fun>

I could not find help on theses _ , which seem to affect nothing,
this triple compose when evaluated works as expected. Is it in the reference
books? in the electronic reference manuel? somewhere in the iria server?

thanks, and many roars

goffinet

Note: camels do roar