From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA10500; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:30:22 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14670 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:30:22 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (r-mi214-6a69.tin.it [62.211.4.69]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g86KUK903404 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:30:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3A9273B0 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:38:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D79125F.1090005@baretta.com> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 22:38:55 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Allow declaring classes "final" so self type has no type variables? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk james woodyatt wrote: > On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 12:12 US/Pacific, Tim Freeman wrote: > >> >> Any comments on whether this is a good idea? > > > Hide the class with a module signature. Publish only the class type and > one or more functions for constructing objects. I don't think this is what he meant. I think he would like to "finalize" a class for efficiency purposes as opposed to "safety" purposes. He is asking for some compiler magic. Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners