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From: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
To: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Eijiro Sumii)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: polymorphic equality and overloading
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:22:18 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007052122.XAA19555@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000704084224R.sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu> from Eijiro Sumii at "Jul 4, 100 08:42:24 am"

> Neither do I, and I also don't see whether the polymorphic
> (in)equalities are more useful than the "polymorphic addition".  That
> was (and is) my question.

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

Best regards,

Pierre Weis

INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-07-05 21:29 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 [this message]
2000-07-05 21:30           ` Eijiro Sumii
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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