Understanding the value restriction

"[email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> 10 Feb 2017 01:17:50 +0000
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      <p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">I am still trying to understand the value restriction in OCaml and I was reading through&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://cs.au.dk/~hosc/local/LaSC-8-4-pp343-355.pdf">Wright&#39;s paper</a>. And in it states&nbsp;</span><span class="s2">(fun</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2">x -&gt; x) (fun y -&gt; y)</span><span class="s1">&nbsp;is not a syntactic value while it is also stating lambda expression should be a value. I am a bit confused here, isn&#39;t&nbsp;</span><span class="s2">id</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2">id</span><span class="s1">&nbsp;in its essence also a lambda expression? What really counts as a syntactic value in OCaml?</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">I also tried it in&nbsp;</span><span clas
 s="s2">utop</span><span class="s1">&nbsp;and found these:</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s1">utop # let x = let x = (fun y -&gt; y) (fun z -&gt; z) in x ;; val</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2">x : &#39;_a -&gt; &#39;_a = &lt;fun&gt;</span><span class="s1">&nbsp;Here&nbsp;</span><span class="s2">id</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2">id</span><span class="s1">&nbsp;is not a value and it cannot escape the value restriction but</span></p><p class="p2"><span class="s1">utop # let x a = let x = (fun y -&gt; y) a in x ;; val x : &#39;a -&gt;</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2">&#39;a = &lt;fun&gt;</span><span class="s1">&nbsp;Here&nbsp;</span><span class="s2">id</span></p><p><span>  </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s2">a</span><span class="s1">&nbsp;seems to be tre
 ated as a value. They are all function application, what&#39;s the difference?</span></p><p><span><br class="yui-cursor"></span></p></p>

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