From: "Warp" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: "OCaml" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for overloaded operators
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:46:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009e01c1b239$517f6cf0$0700a8c0@warp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202101421140.11370-100000@clipper.ens.fr>
> > Helo.
> > One of missing thing in Ocaml is the possibility to overload the
operators
> > such as + - / * = (by overloading, i mean : defining such operators for
> > other types than -int- )....
> > Here's a syntactic proposal to enable this feature :
>
> You say nothing about the typing of static overloading (interaction with
> polymorphism and type inference), and this is the crux of the matter.
Actually this was only a syntactic suggestion for overload. I don't know
well enough the ocaml typing algorithms to suggest the correct way to
implement it and to solve problems such as :
> What type would you give to:
> fun a b -> a :+ b
> ?
Warp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-10 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-10 13:04 Warp
2002-02-10 13:35 ` Alain Frisch
2002-02-10 13:46 ` Warp [this message]
2002-02-10 13:40 ` Bruno Pagano
2002-02-10 13:51 ` Warp
2002-02-10 17:49 ` Tom
2002-02-11 8:36 ` Francois Pottier
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