From: Tom <tom7ca@yahoo.com>
To: Warp <warplayer@free.fr>, OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for overloaded operators
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:49:30 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020210174930.42259.qmail@web11905.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006801c1b233$83825ec0$0700a8c0@warp>
> Here's a syntactic proposal to enable this feature :
>
> (a :+ b)
> The ':' is here to precise that we're using overloading , and a and b can be
> of any type. ( let's say typea and typeb )
I don't see why overloading should just apply to operators;
it can just as well apply to functions.
More importantly, the problem isn't coming up with a syntax
or indicating that something is overloaded, the problem is
doing the type checking efficiently in the presence of
type variables.
SML/NJ and Haskell each have partial solutions to the problem.
You may want to look there.
Tom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-10 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-10 13:04 Warp
2002-02-10 13:35 ` Alain Frisch
2002-02-10 13:46 ` Warp
2002-02-10 13:40 ` Bruno Pagano
2002-02-10 13:51 ` Warp
2002-02-10 17:49 ` Tom [this message]
2002-02-11 8:36 ` Francois Pottier
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