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From: Jon Harrop <jon@jdh30.plus.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:20:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409291520.39494.jon@jdh30.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409290925010.5809-100000@localhost.localdomain>

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 15:26, Brian Hurt wrote:
> This gets tricky, I would think.  One thing I don't want to lose is the
> ability to make ('a -> 'b) list types.  Comparing two functions is
> obviously bogus, but in most other places being able to handle both
> functions and data is a usefull thing.

What if the compilers flagged a warning when the polymorphic comparisons were 
used either on types containing functions or on abstract types?

Cheers,
Jon.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-27 19:08 John Goerzen
2004-09-27 20:24 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2004-09-27 21:34   ` Danny Yoo
2004-09-28  7:22     ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-09-28 18:02       ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-29 14:26         ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-29 14:20           ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2004-09-29 15:03           ` Dmitry Lomov
2004-09-28 10:10     ` [Caml-list] Caml monomorphisation (was Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell) Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-09-28 12:01       ` Richard Jones
2004-09-28 17:50       ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-28  1:56   ` [Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell skaller
2004-09-28  9:31   ` Keith Wansbrough
2004-09-28  9:55     ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2004-09-27 21:11 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-09-28  1:32 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-28  1:46 ` skaller
2004-09-28  8:27 ` Richard Jones

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