Re: [Caml-list] Fwd: Polymorphic optional label argument, with default

[skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 18:33, Richard Jones wrote:

> But not if I want the default to be the most common case (which is
> that my graph will be a graph of ints).  I want the common case in
> there so that most of the time end users of the API won't need to
> worry about ~labels and optional arguments.

Of course it is trivial to do with two functions:

let plot_extended label_printer g = ...
let plot g = plot_extended string_of_int g

although I still prefer

let plot g = plot_extended polyprint g

since it remains polymorphic.

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