From: Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr>
To: dt@dt7463.spb.edu (Dimitri Timofeev)
Cc: Jun.Furuse@inria.fr, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GCaml
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:42:04 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305131642.SAA11547@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030507193919.GA689@dt7463.spb.edu> from Dimitri Timofeev at "May 7, 103 11:39:19 pm"
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> Hello!
>
> On Mon, 05 May 2003, Jun.Furuse@inria.fr wrote:
>
> > G'Caml is not dead. I am prepared to restart the project just after
> > 3.07 will be released.
>
> It's a very good news, thank you!
>
> And a little question about generic function definition. Now (AFAIK) it is
> "closed": all cases must be defined in one place. Is it possible to let
> user to extend an existing generic function by defining a new case
> somewhere else in the code?
>
> > --
> > Jun
>
> --
> Dimitri
We have studied such an extension mechanism and this has been
discussed in this mailing list. In short, extension of generic
functions are made via redefinition, with an automatic textual
inclusion of the old definition (in the spirit of the include feature
of the module system of the language).
Hope this helps,
Pierre Weis
INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-29 3:19 Dimitri Timofeev
2003-04-29 12:39 ` Eray Ozkural
2003-04-30 2:29 ` brogoff
2003-05-05 15:08 ` Jun.Furuse
2003-05-07 19:39 ` Dimitri Timofeev
2003-05-13 16:42 ` Pierre Weis [this message]
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