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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Seth J. Fogarty" <sfogarty@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Polymorphic Variants
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:55:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169013309.8941.99.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7ee61120701161323r4bd66f35sd1d7c6253431bcdd@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 15:23 -0600, Seth J. Fogarty wrote:

> OCaml does not, as far as I know, have any structural typing for
> records.. 

Hmm .. Felix does, and it supports subtyping (by explicit coercion).
So why doesn't Ocaml have it? Yes, it would be "yet another product
type", bringing the total to 4 in Ocaml (tuples, records, structurally
typed records and classes).

Come to think of it .. aren't classes structurally typed records?


-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-17  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-16 20:32 Tom
2007-01-16 20:49 ` [Caml-list] " Seth J. Fogarty
2007-01-16 21:05   ` Tom
2007-01-16 21:23     ` Seth J. Fogarty
2007-01-16 21:45       ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 22:18       ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-01-17  5:55       ` skaller [this message]
2007-01-17  0:30 ` Jonathan Roewen
2007-01-17  2:19 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2007-01-17  3:24   ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-18  2:12     ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-01-17  6:09   ` skaller
2007-01-17 13:34     ` Andrej Bauer
2007-01-17 21:13   ` Tom
2007-01-17 22:53     ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-17 23:07       ` Tom
     [not found]         ` <200701172349.53331.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
     [not found]           ` <c1490a380701180407j670a7cccyb679c71fde20aa4b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-18 16:23             ` Fwd: " Tom
2007-01-18 21:14               ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-19  9:26                 ` Dirk Thierbach
2007-01-19 10:35                   ` Tom
2007-01-19 11:14                     ` Dirk Thierbach
2007-01-19 12:03                       ` Tom
2007-01-18 21:43       ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-18  1:28     ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-01-18  1:46       ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-18  4:05       ` skaller
2007-01-18  6:20         ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-01-18  9:48           ` skaller
2007-01-18 12:23       ` Tom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-17  9:49 [Caml-list] Polymorphic variants John Max Skaller
2002-04-17 10:43 ` Remi VANICAT
2002-04-17 23:49   ` John Max Skaller
2002-04-18  1:23     ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-04-18  9:04       ` John Max Skaller

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