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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@artisan.com>
To: Diego-Olivier.FERNANDEZ-PONS@cicrp.jussieu.fr
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Polymorphic recursion 9Was Re: [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:48:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15715.46665.366229.38824@granite.artisan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.95.1020821094217.35716C-100000@ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr>

Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons writes:
> I do not agree with your analysis since I really do not believe anyone
> could think that polymorphic recursion is useless. 

Every feature in a programming language has to be evaluated in a large 
context. There are lot's of useful features that OCaml doesn't have. Would
you add them all? 

I never said polymorphic recursion was useless, and I'd like direct support
for it added, so your claim that my analysis suggests it's uselessness
indicates that I am communicating very badly. I'll just be quiet on this 
topic. 

> Your trick 

Actually, Jacques Garrigue's trick

http://caml.inria.fr/archives/199809/msg00032.html

but I just noticed that OCaml 3.05 has the same first class polymorphism on 
records and since there was no use of class features like dynamic binding
that a record dictionary is even better. 

BTW, the Caml mailing list archive is a really great resource. 

-- Brian
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-21 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-13  8:00 [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list Oleg
2002-08-13  8:54 ` Markus Mottl
2002-08-13 15:52   ` Oleg
2002-08-13 11:00 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-13 14:30   ` Oleg
2002-08-13 15:11     ` Anton Moscal
2002-08-13 16:12       ` Oleg
2002-08-13 17:16         ` Max Kirillov
2002-08-14  0:49           ` Max Kirillov
2002-08-13 18:23         ` Anton E. Moscal
2002-08-13 16:16   ` Brian Rogoff
2002-08-14  8:13     ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-14 15:43       ` Brian Rogoff
2002-08-19 10:38         ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-19 15:58           ` Polymorphic recursion 9Was Re: [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list) Brian Rogoff
2002-08-21  8:04             ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-21 15:48               ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2002-08-23  8:14                 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-23 21:57               ` John Max Skaller
2002-08-27 13:00                 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2002-08-28 14:50                   ` John Max Skaller
2002-08-28 17:27                     ` [Caml-list] FELIX (was: Polymorphic recursion) Oleg
2002-08-19 23:17 ` [Caml-list] Doubly-linked list james woodyatt

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