One of the pitfall of OCaml that seems completely at odd with the language design has always been the generic comparators: use them on the wrong value type and your program will crash at runtimne, despite the compiler not emitting a single warning. For instance: $ echo let x = compare (+) (-) > bou…

Generic compare that crash at runtime

rixed March 4, 2021, 6:50pm 2

Replying to myself: Just found that this has been answered already by gasche here: Removing polymorphic compare from Core - #12 by gasche

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