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From: "Jake Donham" <jake.donham@skydeck.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why can't I call a function over a subclass?
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:49:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7e4e9f0710051849p3ba668c2s4070795dc96c6a5f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878x6hny0e.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr>

Hi Luca,

Others have given good replies already but you may find this article helpful:

  http://skydeck.com/blog/programming/ocaml-for-the-recovering-java-programmer-part-1-objects-and-subtyping/

What it comes down to is that in OCaml subsumption (i.e. the whole
idea of object oriented programming) is accomplished using
polymorphism, not implicit coercion.

Jake


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-06  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-05  7:48 Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05  8:01 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Hars
2007-10-05  8:08   ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05  8:08     ` Fwd: " Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 11:08     ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-05 11:47       ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-05 10:30   ` David Teller
2007-10-05 10:53     ` Zheng Li
2007-10-05 14:02       ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2007-10-05 14:59         ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 15:12           ` Luca de Alfaro
     [not found]             ` <20071005152130.M41697@cs.unm.edu>
2007-10-05 15:49               ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 16:34                 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-10-05 17:39                   ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 17:49                     ` Martin Jambon
     [not found]                       ` <28fa90930710052153k2128bb63m5132455868eb2008@mail.gmail.com>
2007-10-07 22:19                         ` Martin Jambon
2007-10-07 22:57                         ` Classes and polymorphism (Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why can't I call a function over a subclass?) Martin Jambon
2007-10-05 19:48                 ` Why can't I call a function over a subclass? Zheng Li
2007-10-06  1:49                   ` Jake Donham [this message]
2007-10-09  4:18                 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-10-05  8:07 ` [Caml-list] " Pietro Abate
2007-10-05 10:55 ` Andrej Bauer

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