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From: Eijiro Sumii <sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
To: Pierre.Weis@inria.fr
Cc: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: polymorphic equality and overloading
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:30:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000705173047X.sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200007052122.XAA19555@pauillac.inria.fr>

> Look at mathematics: equality is polymorphic. Addition is just overloaded.

But as you know (and as I wrote in my previous messages), the
polymorphic equality in Caml is not at all the "equality in
mathematics" for many (or most?) datatypes.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-05 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-29 21:10 Eijiro Sumii
2000-06-30 17:08 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-06-30 17:51   ` Eijiro Sumii
2000-07-04  7:09     ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-07-04 12:42       ` Eijiro Sumii
2000-07-05  1:11         ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-07-05  2:37           ` Eijiro Sumii
2000-07-05 21:22         ` Pierre Weis
2000-07-05 21:30           ` Eijiro Sumii [this message]
2000-07-05 22:15             ` Pierre Weis
2000-07-05 23:09               ` Eijiro Sumii
2000-07-06 17:18             ` Benjamin Werner
2000-07-05 22:40 John R Harrison

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