From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Eijiro Sumii <eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ambitious proposal: polymorphic arithmetics
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:56:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050406155608.GA17518@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050406.111505.68543084.eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp>
The problem, I'm guessing, is that you add polymorphic +, -, and so
on. But that's really just a hack in the language. Sooner or later
people are going to ask why it's not possible to write a polymorphic
'print' function, _without_ hacking the language some more. At that
point you need a theory, and you need something like G'Caml, or type
classes, or GADTS.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-06 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-06 15:15 Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-06 15:51 ` [Caml-list] " Sébastien Hinderer
2005-04-06 15:56 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-04-06 16:43 ` Dmitry Lomov
2005-04-06 18:59 ` Richard Jones
2005-04-06 19:19 ` Jacques Carette
2005-04-07 0:01 ` Ethan Aubin
2005-04-06 16:39 ` [Caml-list] " William Lovas
2005-04-06 16:59 ` Andreas Rossberg
2005-04-06 18:50 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-06 19:33 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-07 0:13 ` William Lovas
2005-04-07 1:58 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-04-06 17:00 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-04-06 19:20 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-07 14:00 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-04-06 17:23 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-04-06 18:01 ` padiolea
2005-04-06 19:14 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-06 20:31 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-06 21:53 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-04-06 22:38 ` Eijiro Sumii
2005-04-06 19:23 ` Richard Jones
2005-04-09 2:58 ` Jon Harrop
2005-04-09 3:16 ` Eijiro Sumii
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