From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A nastier example
Date: 16 May 2005 01:50:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116172224.17482.1033.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505142009.29177.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 05:09, Jon Harrop wrote:
> I think everyone would agree that there are caveats here but this is a
> question of trade-offs. So the question should be "how can we improve upon
> the current implementation?".
> There are many pitfalls associated with equality in OCaml but the existence of
> polymorphic comparisons is easily justified by their usefulness, IMHO.
Require the user to define the comparison, then provide a way
to generate them 'memberwise' for products and sums.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-15 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-14 14:51 Julien Verlaguet
2005-05-14 15:09 ` [Caml-list] " Eric Cooper
2005-05-14 15:36 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-05-14 15:47 ` Julien Verlaguet
2005-05-15 14:59 ` Vincenzo Ciancia
2005-05-14 19:09 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-05-15 15:50 ` skaller [this message]
2005-05-15 17:24 ` Mark Shinwell
2005-05-16 0:15 ` Jon Harrop
2005-05-16 11:40 ` Damien Doligez
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