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From: "Johan Baltié" <johan.baltie@wanadoo.fr>
To: Oleg <oleg_inconnu@myrealbox.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] generic programming
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:42:55 +0100
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> Hi
> 
> Is generic programming possible with O'Caml? Suppose I want to find 
> the Pearson correlation between two sets of real numbers represented 
> as sets, arrays, big_arrays, maps, stacks, queues or lists. Is it 
> possible to have one piece of code that handles all of these 
> containers, a generic function of some sort? (Iteration is all that is 
> necessary in the Pearson correlation example)

Aren't you looking for functors ??
(http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual004.html part 2.3)

Or did I miss something ?


Ciao

Jo
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