From: henridf@lcavsun1.epfl.ch
To: Manos Renieris <er@cs.brown.edu>
Cc: KONTRA Gergely <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] hash objectified
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:13:17 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308252012170.6255-100000@lcavpc3.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030825173217.GA24098@cs.brown.edu>
> > Hashtbl.add h "foo" "bar" <--> h#add "foo" "bar"
> >
> > Because it is shorter to type -> less errors, quicker programming
> > OO can be cool. (see ruby)
> > I'm not OO fan, but lazy :)
>
> If that's the reason, once you do
> module H = Hashtbl
> then
> H.add h "foo" "bar"
> is only two characters longer, and one shift shorter :-)
> And the compiler ensures the exact type of h, and you know statically
> what function you call -> less to keep in your head -> less errors,
> quicker programming.
>
and quicker at runtime too i would assume.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-25 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-12 19:31 KONTRA Gergely
2003-08-18 12:50 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-08-18 14:40 ` William Lovas
2003-08-18 15:09 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-08-18 15:57 ` William Lovas
2003-08-21 10:24 ` KONTRA Gergely
2003-08-21 16:58 ` William Lovas
2003-08-25 15:46 ` KONTRA Gergely
2003-08-25 17:32 ` Manos Renieris
2003-08-25 18:13 ` henridf [this message]
2003-08-26 1:40 ` Yaron M. Minsky
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