From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA05479; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:41:42 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05589 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:41:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lobus.fungible.com (adsl-64-161-114-6.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.161.114.6]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g72Hfdf23076 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:41:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by lobus.fungible.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AFEBA7F66; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 04:15:01 -0700 From-Tims-Fingers: true To: garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp Cc: jscott@planetinternet.be, caml-list@inria.fr In-reply-to: <20020802143158H.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> (message from Jacques Garrigue on Fri, 02 Aug 2002 14:31:58 +0900) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml 3.05 released References: <20020729144527.A30919@pauillac.inria.fr> <000f01c2377c$36263060$2097fea9@janxp> <20020802143158H.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Message-Id: <20020802174135.AFEBA7F66@lobus.fungible.com> From: tim@fungible.com (Tim Freeman) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk From: "Scott J." > What is meant by first first-class polymorphism? From: Jacques Garrigue >The ability to pass values with polymorphic types around. >This is mostly useful for objects, and lets you write type safe >visitor patterns for instance. Do you have any examples of a use for this? -- Tim Freeman tim@fungible.com GPG public key fingerprint ECDF 46F8 3B80 BB9E 575D 7180 76DF FE00 34B1 5C78 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners