On Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 9:47:50 AM UTC-4, M88 wrote:
> I noticed this a while ago in ATS2 (just verified in Temptory).
> 
> 
> 
> It seems that call-by-reference functions in record definitions cause issues 
> with template dispatch.
> 

>From what I can tell after some testing, a type defined as a function with 
>call-by-reference seems to cause the same issue (even outside records). 

> 
> The following will fail to compile ( no match for `do_something` ) -- 
> changing  the signature of `foo.f` to `(int) -> void` will compile 
> successfully.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> #include "share/HATS/temptory_staload_bucs320.hats"
> 
> typedef foo = @{
>   f = (&int) -> void
> }
> 
> extern
> fun {a:vtflt} do_something( a ) : void
> 
> impltmp
> do_something<foo>( x ) =
>   let
>      var z : int = 0
>    in x.f(z)
>    end
> 
> implfun main0() 
>    = println!("Hello [test0]") 
>    where {
>      var ff : foo = (@{
>           f = lam(x) => println!(x)
>         }): foo
> 
>      val () = do_something<foo>(ff)
>    }
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I've been using abstract types / casting as a work-around.

Could you share how you use abstract type / casting in this example to get it 
to work?

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