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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: Micha <micha-1@fantasymail.de>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to use Set Datatype
Date: 12 Dec 2004 11:05:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102809942.2611.647.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412111505110.28854-100000@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 08:12, Brian Hurt wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Micha wrote:

> Another thing- longtime Ocaml programmers tend to inline their structure 
> definitions.  

Why? Because binding implicitly by name is basically bogus?
So you write

	Set.Make(struct let compare=String.compare ...

because the name in the functor 'compare' only agrees
accidentally. The anonymous struct there seems general,
and at least exposes explicitly the bindings.

Of course the *implicit* binding in C++ templates (dependent
name lookup) is something some of us have learned to hate
intensely.. especially when the template calls T().compare ..
and our input class spelled it 'Compare' ..


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-12  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-10 18:37 Jan Stamer
2004-12-10 19:44 ` [Caml-list] " Micha
2004-12-11  1:33   ` Jon Harrop
2004-12-11 21:12   ` Brian Hurt
2004-12-12  0:05     ` skaller [this message]
2004-12-12  2:46       ` William Lovas
2004-12-12  3:09       ` Brian Hurt

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