From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Loup Vaillant <loup.vaillant@gmail.com>
Cc: Caml mailing list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Custom operators in the revised syntax
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 04:22:49 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178907769.6118.88.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f9f8f4a0705110715l48259b8cr11f22d333ed8d7f5@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:15 +0200, Loup Vaillant wrote:
> 2007/5/11, dmitry grebeniuk <gds-mlsts@moldavcable.com>:
> I tend to agree when one says custom operators are evil. However, when
> the default syntax uses operators, the custom ones are a net win : a
> wise programmer will use their semantic load carefully (big nums, for
> example), and sparsely, so the code is more readable.
In Ocaml, there's no overloading: custom operators have
big advantages for things like int32, int64, bignums, matrices etc,
where other languages can simply use overloading.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-11 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-10 20:55 Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-10 21:35 ` [Caml-list] " Loup Vaillant
2007-05-10 22:25 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-11 6:52 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2007-05-11 13:14 ` dmitry grebeniuk
2007-05-11 14:15 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-05-11 14:37 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-11 14:46 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-12 2:48 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-12 4:40 ` skaller
2007-05-12 4:47 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-12 5:45 ` skaller
2007-05-12 5:59 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-12 6:43 ` skaller
2007-05-12 10:22 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-13 15:42 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-05-13 16:04 ` ls-ocaml-developer-2006
2007-05-13 20:08 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-12 9:49 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-12 10:09 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-11 14:52 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-05-11 18:32 ` skaller
2007-05-12 4:48 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-11 18:23 ` skaller
2007-05-11 14:40 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-11 18:22 ` skaller [this message]
2007-05-11 14:36 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-11 14:47 ` brogoff
2007-05-11 14:51 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-11 18:25 ` brogoff
2007-05-11 20:37 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-12 22:54 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-13 0:27 ` ketti
2007-05-13 1:05 ` Christian Stork
2007-05-13 10:50 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-05-13 5:52 ` brogoff
2007-05-13 7:36 ` skaller
2007-05-13 13:12 ` Jacques Carette
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