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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next prev 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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