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 OAA17630; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:42:29 +0100 (MET) 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 OAA18020 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:42:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from mxintern.kundenserver.de (mxintern.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.204]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gA8DgRD24513 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:42:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from [172.17.0.208] (helo=schluck.schlund.de) by mxintern.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18A9P1-0007vH-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:42:27 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael Wohlwend Reply-To: mwohlwend@web.de Organization: - To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What are Classes for in O'Caml? Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:45:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200211081324.IAA23597@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <200211081324.IAA23597@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200211081445.29249.mwohlwend@web.de> Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Freitag, 8. November 2002 14:24, Oleg wrote: > I'm curious as to what classes are for in O'Caml (in view of the fact that > it already has abstract data types) ? I'm wondering about the same question :-) I got to ocaml two weeks ago and the first thing I realized was that due the the functional programming style and the module system the need for oo-programming is much lower than with imperative style languages (at least for me). Has somone found a *best* solution (for his tasks) to combine them (classes und modules) or is it really just a matter of taste? Michael ------------------- 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