Re: [Caml-list] polymorphic method.

[Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>]

blue storm a écrit :
>
> With a camlp4 extension, you could inspect the (syntaxically explicit)
> parameters of you method, and (syntaxically) generate a polymorphic
> type for each one : "polymorphic method foo bar baz = ..." would be
> translated into "method foo : 'a 'b . 'a -> 'b -> 'c = fun (bar : 'a)
> (baz : 'b) -> ...".
> This is probably not what you want.

Indeed, it's not what I want.

> but my general advice is not to try to much to do
> type-level transformation by syntaxic transformations : they tend to
> get flawed in ways you don't expect, and this is just not the right
> tool for the job.

Too bad there's no "type checking extension" in Objective Caml. That 
would be huge fun.

Thanks.

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      Guillaume Yziquel
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