“Repeat after me: "Obj. magic is not part of the OCaml language."”

—  Xavier Leroy

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Source: Xavier Leroy (2009-10-28), Post to the Caml mailing list, 2009-10-28 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.general/47389,

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French computer scientistand programmer 1968

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