From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: frisch@clipper.ens.fr, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Polymorphic methods
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:55:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011120215558.A2692@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011120092918S.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>; from garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:29:18AM +0900
> After two years, my promises may seem void, but I intend to
> implement polymorphic methods, probably as soon as 3.03 is released.
> Or should I start before? This is a rather large chunk of work,
> modifying very sensitive parts of the compiler...
>
> What would you need them for?
I believe my ever-ongoing Caml/Java mapping could make good use of
polymorphic methods. Indeed, in this particular example of
translating a Java class hierarchy to Caml, polymorphic methods seem
to offer exactly what is needed to simulate Java-like implicit
subsumption with OCaml's row polymorphism.
This said, I understand polymorphic methods impact the type inference
engine quite a lot, and I'm not pushing for additional complexity in
this (already rather hairy) part of the OCaml implementation...
- Xavier Leroy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-20 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-19 15:29 Alain Frisch
2001-11-20 0:29 ` Jacques Garrigue
2001-11-20 9:33 ` Alain Frisch
2001-11-20 20:55 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2002-07-14 23:16 [Caml-list] polymorphic methods nadji
2002-07-15 1:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-07-15 2:08 ` Brian Smith
2002-07-15 16:24 ` nadji
2002-08-23 15:46 [Caml-list] Polymorphic methods Frederic Tronel
2002-08-23 17:32 ` Fred Smith
2002-08-23 18:21 ` Remi VANICAT
2003-03-12 23:07 [Caml-list] polymorphic methods Damien
2003-03-13 0:56 ` brogoff
2003-03-13 1:56 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-03-13 9:04 ` Damien
2003-03-13 9:27 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-03-13 14:49 ` Damien
2003-03-13 9:41 ` Olivier Andrieu
2015-12-18 9:18 Christoph Höger
2015-12-18 10:07 ` Leo White
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