From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
Cc: Patrick M Doane <patrick@watson.org>,
Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] variant with tuple arg in pattern match?
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:42:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010407174259.A14454@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010406155241.D5178@pauillac.inria.fr>; from Xavier Leroy on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:52:41PM +0200
On 06-Apr-2001, Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> Frankly, I think there is no point in maintaining the illusion that
> datatype constructors are either nullary (constant) or unary. The
> only efficient implementation model is N-ary constructors, so let's
> reflect this in the language.
Sounds good to me. Now, for consistency, shouldn't you do the same
for function arguments? ;-)
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-04 11:04 Chris Hecker
2001-04-04 18:47 ` Alain Frisch
2001-04-04 19:18 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-04 19:36 ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-04 19:49 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-05 8:19 ` Christian RINDERKNECHT
2001-04-04 19:49 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-06 13:52 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-07 1:42 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-07 6:44 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-07 7:42 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
2001-04-08 19:45 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-08 20:37 ` Charles Martin
2001-04-08 23:57 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 0:22 ` Alain Frisch
2001-04-09 16:07 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-10 8:23 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 9:14 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-04-10 10:09 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 10:44 ` reig
2001-04-10 11:32 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 11:47 ` reig
2001-04-10 12:10 ` reig
2001-04-10 12:35 ` Michel Mauny
2001-04-10 12:49 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-09 6:23 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-04-09 7:34 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2001-04-09 15:57 ` Pierre Weis
2001-04-10 9:07 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-04-09 8:20 ` Christian RINDERKNECHT
2001-04-10 2:54 ` Patrick M Doane
2001-04-10 19:04 ` John Max Skaller
2001-04-08 0:22 jgm
2001-04-10 12:17 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 13:12 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-10 21:26 ` Bruce Hoult
2001-04-10 22:34 ` John Prevost
2001-04-10 13:51 ` Frank Atanassow
2001-04-10 17:25 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 23:16 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2001-04-10 17:33 Dave Berry
2001-04-10 22:34 ` John Prevost
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