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From: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
To: Sebastien.deMentendeHorne@electrabel.com
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] choosing modules at runtime
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:41:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020924114123.GC7700@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8D1414482878D4119AEE00508B6C9074089664C9@seacex02.eib.electrabel.be>

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Sebastien.deMentendeHorne@electrabel.com wrote:
> I looked at functors and they suffered of staticity.

It seems you are coming from an OO-background... ;-)

> The plugin we use are dynamically (runtime) selected and they
> should/could be even generated at runtime, compiled, loaded and
> selected... I think that plugins are most often used in a dynamic way
> so definitely, first-class modules would be great.

Actually, I'd say that most problems of "programming in the large" can
be and are best solved statically. But in some cases, one needs more
dynamic means of parameterization. Then, first-class modules or objects
enter the game.

Regards,
Markus Mottl

-- 
Markus Mottl                                             markus@oefai.at
Austrian Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence                  http://www.oefai.at/~markus
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-24 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-24 11:09 Sebastien.deMentendeHorne
2002-09-24 11:41 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2002-09-30  7:28   ` John Max Skaller
2002-10-02 13:04     ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-02 13:28       ` Dave Mason
2002-10-02 20:57         ` Chris Hecker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-24 10:40 Sebastien.deMentendeHorne
2002-09-24 11:00 ` Markus Mottl
2002-09-24  8:48 Henri Dubois-Ferriere
2002-09-24  9:36 ` Andreas Rossberg
2002-09-24 10:37   ` Markus Mottl
2002-09-24 10:08 ` Markus Mottl
2002-09-24 10:18 ` Olivier Andrieu
2002-09-24 17:24   ` Sven LUTHER
2002-09-24 10:42 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2002-09-24 12:43 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-09-24 12:55   ` Maxence Guesdon

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