See the long comment in pervasives.ml for an explanation of the
change. The short summary is that we need to prove more elaborate
properties between the format types involved in the typing of %(...%),
and that proving things by writing GADT functions in OCaml reveals
that Coq's Ltac is a miracle of usability.
Proofs on OCaml GADTs are runtime functions that do have a runtime
semantics: it is legitimate to hope that those proof computations are
as simple as possible, but the current implementation was optimized
for feasability, not simplicity. François Bobot has some interesting
suggestions to simplify the reasoning part (with more equality
reasoning where I used transitivity and symmetry of the
relation profusely), which may make the code simpler in the future
(and possibly more efficient: the hope is that only %(...%) users will
pay a proof-related cost).
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This simplifies the charset-handling code, as camlinternalFormat is
allowed to depend on Bytes and String instead of re-importing the
needed primitives.
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After applying this patch, you should run:
make library-cross
make promote-cross
make partialclean
make ocamlc ocamllex ocamltools
and then immediately apply the following patches until the "second
part of Benoît Vaugon's format+gadts patch"; the bootstrap cycle is
not finished yet.
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