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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" <dido@imperium.ph>
Cc: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell
Date: 28 Sep 2004 11:56:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096336610.28613.801.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040927202449.GA548@imperium.ph>

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 06:24, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:08:51PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:

> Performance again.  The reason why there are so many numeric types in
> OCaml is performance.  

Also it is related to compatibility with external libraries.

> The compiler could very easily make the arithmetic operators polymorphic,
> and constrain the operands to be of the same (numeric) type

G'Caml generics would handle this easily, without 
need to 'kludge' the Ocaml compiler. 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-28  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-27 19:08 John Goerzen
2004-09-27 20:24 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2004-09-27 21:34   ` Danny Yoo
2004-09-28  7:22     ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-09-28 18:02       ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-29 14:26         ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-29 14:20           ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-29 15:03           ` Dmitry Lomov
2004-09-28 10:10     ` [Caml-list] Caml monomorphisation (was Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell) Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-09-28 12:01       ` Richard Jones
2004-09-28 17:50       ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-28  1:56   ` skaller [this message]
2004-09-28  9:31   ` [Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell Keith Wansbrough
2004-09-28  9:55     ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2004-09-27 21:11 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-09-28  1:32 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-28  1:46 ` skaller
2004-09-28  8:27 ` Richard Jones

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