alice
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This page provides an overview of the limitations of the current version of the Alice system.
The equality attribute of types is ignored. The = operator may be applied to values of any type. For functions and similar values it uses physical equality.
Overloading is not supported for literal constants. All literals default to their primary type.
If a (generative or non-generative) constructor has a syntactic arity not equal to 1, application of this constructor is strict in the argument (record).
Scoping of include specifications in signatures is limited: the included signature expression cannot refer to entities of the surrounding signature, nor can subsequent specifications refer to entities defined by the included signature.
Datatype replication in signatures (datatype t = datatype u) is not supported yet. Since datatypes are structural, the datatype specification can be copied as a work-around. Datatype replication in structures is supported.
Some of the implemented structures and functors from the Standard ML Basis Library lack parts of their functionality. These include: