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 WAA03526; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:27:33 +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 WAA03727 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:27:32 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from h2o.hex.no (22.80-202-72.nextgentel.com [80.202.72.22]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gASLRQ127441 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:27:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (h2o [127.0.0.1]) by h2o.hex.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2FB9DA15B for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:27:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from frodo (unknown [10.1.1.51]) by h2o.hex.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3FAD8EF6 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:27:18 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F8rgen=20Hermanrud=20Fjeld?= Organization: Fjeld Kurs og Konsulenttjenester To: ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Understanding why Ocaml doesn't support operator overloading. Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 22:27:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200211282202.44717.jhf@hex.no> In-Reply-To: <200211282202.44717.jhf@hex.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200211282227.18402.jhf@hex.no> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi again. Now I found a previous thread about this "http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200104/threads.html#00028" I still don't understand why overloading isn't doable, (not only operator overloading) And I wondered if any projects work on this? On torsdag 28 november 2002, 22:02, Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: > Hi. > Some time ago, when looking at Ocaml for the first time, I got baffled by > the lack of operator overloading. I am still wondering why this is the > case. Could someone please point me to more information about this? > > I remember reading something about operator overloading and type inference > beeing hard to combine. A little googleing brought me, amongst many things, > what seems to be a paper about the subject: > "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/581478.581495" > (No I haven't read the paper yet, but it seemed ontopic) - -- Sincerely | Homepage: Jørgen | http://www.hex.no/jhf | Public GPG key: | http://www.hex.no/jhf/key.txt There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE95ooy9jvTqPy5VsoRAsRCAJ9K3uuH2nK55WTFn4cRoK4NwfhpSQCeJEca woLJurkjCSQqYi3k751obfo= =EKLa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------- 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