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 UAA29106; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:18:18 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29102 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:18:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.cswv.com (smtp1.cswv.com [4.17.129.17]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6AIICb18246 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:18:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp1.cswv.com ([4.17.129.17]) by smtp1.cswv.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:19:13 -0400 Received: FROM exchange1.cswv.com BY smtp1.cswv.com ; Tue Jul 10 14:19:12 2001 -0400 Received: by exchange1.cswv.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:21:03 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Krishnaswami, Neel" To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: "Re: [Caml-list] A G'Caml question" + additional info Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:21:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Patrick M Doane [mailto:patrick@watson.org] wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Brian Rogoff wrote: > > > I'm convinced that the include scheme, when properly integrated with > > modules, will be sufficient. We need more experience with > > the current scheme. > > I'm convinced now too, it took me a day or two to think things over to > come to the same conclusion. Can you describe how I'd write something like the show function in Haskell, or the print-object generic function in Dylan? I've looked at the G'Caml documentation, and it doesn't look like it's possible to extend a generic function with new branches. -- Neel Krishnaswami neelk@cswcasa.com ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr