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To: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
Cc: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>,
        Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Polymorphic methods and ellipsis
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Date: 21 Sep 2002 02:31:52 +0200
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Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com> writes:

> I'm trying to write a polymorphic method that will accept as a parameter any
> instance of any subclass of given class. For example

what about the simpler:

class salutation = object
   method greet : 'a. (#parent as 'a) -> string = fun obj -> obj # foo ^ obj # bar
end

which works :)
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