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From: "Andreas Rossberg" <AndreasRossberg@web.de>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler: Modulesor classes?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:28:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <007401c75780$c87c53d0$15b2a8c0@wiko> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1490a380702231014n46928637s7a5a2ea10809397b@mail.gmail.com>

Tom <tom.primozic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think you should take a look at another currently active thread  -
> "Feature request : Tuples vs. records". One of the red lines there is the
> comparison of structural versus nominal typing - classes and objects
> belonging to the former, and modules and records to the latter.

Not exactly: ML modules employ fully structural typing and subtyping. That 
is their big strength, in contrast to comparable features in most other 
languages (particularly typical notions of class).

- Andreas


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-22 14:38 Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler: Modules or classes? Joel Reymont
2007-02-22 17:21 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-02-22 17:38 ` Xavier Leroy
2007-02-22 19:55 ` Chris King
2007-02-22 19:59 ` Markus Mottl
2007-02-23 16:13 ` brogoff
2007-02-23 18:14   ` Tom
2007-02-23 19:28     ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2007-02-24  2:51       ` [Caml-list] Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler: Modulesor classes? skaller
2007-02-24 11:48         ` David Baelde
     [not found]           ` <4a708d20702240518l2c430b06r18fe64cabe5cbe9@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-24 13:33             ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-02-24 14:58         ` [Caml-list] Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler:Modulesor classes? Andreas Rossberg
2007-02-24 17:39           ` skaller

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