From: William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] use of `generics'
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:38:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030523213847.GA12787@force.stwing.upenn.edu> (raw)
Hi,
Apologies for the slightly off-topic nature of this posting, but i hope
people on the list can provide some insight.
Everytime a discussion pops up on the list about extensional polymorphism,
this question comes to my mind: why does the O'Caml community use the word
`generics' to refer to ad-hoc polymorphism, while e.g. the Java community
uses the same word to refer to parametric polymorphism?
Is it just standard practice for a community to use `generics' to refer to
"the kind of polymorphism we don't have"? :)
cheers,
William
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-23 21:38 William Lovas [this message]
2003-05-24 7:15 ` [Caml-list] List to Tuple Siegfried Gonzi
2003-05-24 10:41 ` Michal Moskal
2003-05-24 13:58 ` Siegfried Gonzi
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