From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] extensible records again
Date: 22 Mar 2004 04:00:38 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079888437.3165.6.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040321062143.BE7D29BBA2@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu>
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 17:21, Michael Vanier wrote:
> I've written a dynamically-typed language in ocaml, and I want to be able to
> add new types to the language without having to add new primitive types to
> the system.
See Felix. The core system has NO primitive types,
not even bool: all primitive types are added by the user
(as bindings to C types).
>
> Now I want to add a type for (say) files. I don't want this to be a type
> at the same level as ints or floats, because I want users to be able to add
> their own types to the language without hacking the core type definition.
> I can do this as follows:
>
> (* types.mli *)
> type data =
> Int of int
> | Float of float
> | ...
> | Extension of exn
You can just use:
| Extension of string * address
where address is a machine address of some binary
data. What it is is completely irrelevant, since the
operations on user defined primitive data type
can only be specified in one way: by providing
C functions which manipulate that type.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-21 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-21 6:21 Michael Vanier
2004-03-21 8:08 ` Oleg Trott
2004-03-21 8:40 ` Michael Vanier
2004-03-21 16:10 ` Oleg Trott
2004-03-21 17:06 ` skaller
2004-03-21 17:36 ` Oleg Trott
2004-03-22 3:19 ` skaller
2004-03-22 7:49 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-03-22 9:32 ` Oleg Trott
2004-03-22 10:25 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-03-21 22:35 ` Michael Vanier
2004-03-22 3:39 ` skaller
2004-03-21 22:34 ` Michael Vanier
2004-03-22 3:31 ` skaller
2004-03-22 5:54 ` Michael Vanier
2004-03-23 19:14 ` skaller
2004-03-24 1:41 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-03-24 8:44 ` Julien Signoles
2004-03-24 10:04 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-03-21 8:53 ` Martin Jambon
2004-03-21 9:22 ` Michael Vanier
2004-03-21 17:00 ` skaller [this message]
2004-03-22 8:13 ` Achim Blumensath
2004-03-23 2:14 ` Michael Vanier
2004-03-23 7:25 ` Achim Blumensath
2004-03-31 10:05 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
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