Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:13:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sreedevi Sampath <sampath@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
To: Li Liao <lliao@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
Subject: hw 1 question

Professor Liao,

I had a question regarding the assignment.

When we say a list is of the type 'a list, does it mean that it is a
wildcard where 'a matches with either int or string or char etc.?

If yes, then when I declare my list of type 'a list and try to pass a
field of type char list as an element of the list, it gives me a
compilation error. What am I doing wrong? The only way I can think is to
define the list specifically to be a list of chars. How would I do that?

Thank you,
-Sreedevi