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From: Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: polymorphic equality and overloading
In-Reply-To: <20000704084224R.sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu> from Eijiro Sumii at "Jul 4, 100 08:42:24 am"
To: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Eijiro Sumii)
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> 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/