From: Jean-Baptiste Rouquier <jrouquiethearchiveshouldhaveafewantispamtricks@ens-lyon.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Managing a polymorphic environment
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:06:38 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092323198.411b877e22214@mouette.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.44.0408121629060.557174-100000@ibm1>
Quoting Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons <Diego.FERNANDEZ_PONS@etu.upmc.fr>:
> let x = ...
> Env.add x "the number of elements in the knapsack"
> let c = ...
> Env.add c "the total cost of the knapsack"
>
>
> The idea is of course to be able to pretty-print the result
>
> # Env.print_int x;;
> the number of elements in the knapsack is 10 - : unit = ()
> # Env.print_float c
> the total cost of the knapsack is 100.0 - : unit = ()
I'm finishing a lib to handle configuration files, which meets the same kind of
problem : one would like pretty print (and read back) the values, but handle
them in type safe way inside the programme.
I'm using objects and I think it can solve your problem : have a class Env.foo
that has a virtual method print (and any other method to implement the functions
you want in Env), and have classes foo_int and foo_float that inherit from it.
Then your code will be written
let x = new foo_int 10 "the number of elements in the knapsack"
Env.add x (*x is coerced to foo, we forget it's an int*)
let c = new foo_float "the total cost of the knapsack"
Env.add c
x#print
c#print
I can send you my code if you want more details.
Jean-Baptiste.
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-baptiste.rouquier
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-12 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-12 14:46 Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-12 15:06 ` Jean-Baptiste Rouquier [this message]
2004-08-12 15:19 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-12 17:05 ` brogoff
2004-08-13 8:06 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-13 10:12 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-13 14:20 Jean-Baptiste Rouquier
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