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From: Keiko Nakata <keiko@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: a function for polymorphic and monomorphic objects
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:05:32 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071108.180532.68538077.keiko@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> (raw)

Hello.
Can I define a function taking as argument 
an object with a method, say, "map" whose type is instantiatable to
(int -> int) -> int list?

I have two object; 
one with a polymorphic map, the other with a monomorphic map.

let p = object 
  method map : 'a.(int -> 'a) -> 'a list =  fun f -> List.map f [1;2;3]
end;;
  
let q = object
  method map : (int -> int) -> int list = fun f -> List.map f [1;2;3]
end;;

I want to define a function like double below, 
which is applicable to both p and q.

let double o = o#map (fun x -> x*2);;

The only workaround I came up with is

let double2 f = f (fun x -> x*2);;
double2 p#map;;
double2 q#map;;

Yet this is not very nice....

With best regards,
Keiko


             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-08  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-08  9:05 Keiko Nakata [this message]
2007-11-08 10:48 ` [Caml-list] " Andrej Bauer
2007-11-08 12:09   ` Keiko Nakata
2007-11-09  1:35     ` Peng Zang
2007-11-09  2:50 ` Jacques Garrigue

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