From: Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, Jeremy Bem <jeremy1@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] interest in a much simpler, but modern, Caml?
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:53:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c5f194e.8644d80a.7fef.69e6@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp9dkkca.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:52:53 +0200, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Jeremy Bem:
>
> > Yes and no, respectively. In other words, nothing new here.
>
> Oh. I just happen to think that those two are very high on the list
> of things you want to fix once you can start with a clean slate.
>
> > Is there a better approach to polymorphic equality floating around?
>
> Besides type classes? I'm not sure. It's probably possible to remove
> this feature from the language, with a little bit of syntactic
> overhead to pass around a matching comparison function.
Yes for instance the very concise local opening notation comes in handy here:
if Int.(x = 42) then ... else ...
--
Nicolas Pouillard
http://nicolaspouillard.fr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-08 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 4:04 Jeremy Bem
2010-08-06 13:50 ` [Caml-list] " Eray Ozkural
2010-08-08 17:59 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-08 18:44 ` Jeremy Bem
2010-08-08 18:52 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-08 19:39 ` Jeremy Bem
2010-08-09 11:55 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2010-08-11 13:00 ` Jon Harrop
2010-08-08 20:53 ` Nicolas Pouillard [this message]
2010-08-08 20:59 ` Jeremy Bem
2010-08-08 21:47 ` bluestorm
2010-08-08 23:00 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2010-08-08 23:29 ` Jeremy Bem
2010-08-11 13:02 ` Jon Harrop
2010-08-12 0:21 ` Jeremy Bem
2010-08-12 23:14 ` Jon Harrop
2010-08-09 13:10 ` David House
2010-08-09 14:03 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2010-08-08 20:52 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2010-08-11 12:56 ` Jon Harrop
2010-08-09 6:37 ivan chollet
2010-08-09 10:54 ` Cedric Cellier
2010-08-09 15:00 ` ivan chollet
2010-08-09 15:03 ` ivan chollet
2010-08-11 13:19 ` Jon Harrop
2010-08-11 16:12 ` philippe
2010-08-12 6:56 ` ivan chollet
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