From: "Michaël Grünewald" <michael.grunewald@laposte.net>
To: Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@enst.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Categories for types
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:08:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204142887.1724.1.camel@Llea.celt.neu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080227143844.664f0a04@tatanka.kerneis.info>
Le Mercredi 27 février 2008 à 14:38 +0100, Gabriel Kerneis a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Le Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:08:00 +0100, Michaël Grünewald
> <michael.grunewald@laposte.net> a écrit :
> > Before checking
> > the book out, I would like to know if the term ``functor'' was chosen
> > because they are actually functors.
>
> No.
>
> Functors (in Ocaml) are just functions that produce modules.
Concise and precise answer! :)
Thank you,
MG
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-27 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-27 9:08 Michaël Grünewald
2008-02-27 13:38 ` [Caml-list] " Gabriel Kerneis
2008-02-27 20:08 ` Michaël Grünewald [this message]
2008-02-27 14:19 ` Pierre-Evariste Dagand
2008-02-27 20:16 ` Michaël Grünewald
2008-02-28 8:57 ` Axel Poigné
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