From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "Michael Vanier" <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] extensible records?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:39:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002e01c3fd0d$4979b120$ef01a8c0@warp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040227004557.C85CE9BBA2@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu>
[...]
> I thought of using polymorphic variant types, but my (limited)
understanding
> is that you either declare all possible variants straight up in the .mli
file
> (which totally defeats my purpose) or you don't declare anything and let
the
> compiler infer the type (which I don't know how to write into a .mli
file).
> If this can be done with polymorphic variants, how would I do it?
> Alternatively, if this can be done with objects, how would I do it? Or
> should I just stick with abusing exceptions?
There is a nice paper from Jacques Garrigue about extensions using
polymorphic variants.
"Code reuse through polymorphic variants. "
http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/papers/
That might be what you're loooking for.
Regards,
Nicolas Cannasse
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-27 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-27 0:45 Michael Vanier
2004-02-27 1:04 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-02-27 8:39 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-02-27 8:39 ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
2004-02-27 11:17 ` Alexander S. Usov
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