From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Type abstraction and (polymorphic) equality
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:06:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42C27290.1060701@ps.uni-sb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506291012.30612.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Jon Harrop wrote:
>
> I do not believe so. IIRC, SML has equality types to help with this problem.
Equality types only provide half a solution (preventing accidental
(ab)use of polymorphic equality). Solving the whole problem (enabling
user-defined equality on user-defined types) requires something more
general, e.g. type classes.
- Andreas
--
Andreas Rossberg, rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de
Let's get rid of those possible thingies! -- TB
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-29 0:31 Christophe TROESTLER
2005-06-29 9:12 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-06-29 10:06 ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2005-06-29 13:32 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-06-29 23:39 ` brogoff
2005-06-30 7:46 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-06-29 20:27 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-06-29 20:37 ` John Skaller
2005-06-30 9:53 ` Andreas Rossberg
2005-06-30 17:08 ` brogoff
2005-06-30 17:22 ` Andreas Rossberg
2005-06-30 19:56 ` John Skaller
2005-07-01 12:49 ` Andreas Rossberg
2005-06-29 9:45 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2005-06-29 17:33 ` William Lovas
2005-06-29 18:08 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-06-30 9:51 ` Andreas Rossberg
2005-06-30 19:54 ` John Skaller
2005-06-30 22:24 ` Alain Frisch
2005-06-30 12:19 ` Alain Frisch
2005-06-30 12:32 ` padiolea
2005-06-30 12:57 ` Alain Frisch
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