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 GAA03342; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:11:06 +0200 (MET DST) 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 GAA03515 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:11:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from romaine.cc.columbia.edu (romaine.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.210]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h534B4T21980 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:11:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from tw304h3.cpmc.columbia.edu (tw304h3.cpmc.columbia.edu [156.111.84.180]) (user=ot14 mech=LOGIN bits=0) by romaine.cc.columbia.edu (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h534AxOW020810 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:11:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Oleg Trott To: John Max Skaller , "caml-list@inria.fr" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why are arithmetic functions not polymorph? Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:10:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <3EDC1931.80307@ozemail.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3EDC1931.80307@ozemail.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-u" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306030010.56362.oleg_trott@columbia.edu> X-No-Spam-Score: Local X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.32 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam: no; 0.00; oleg:01 caml-list:01 model:01 gcaml:01 verbose:01 overloading:01 arithmetic:01 wrote:03 arguments:03 functions:05 max:06 type:07 naming:09 john:09 felix:09 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Monday 02 June 2003 11:42 pm, John Max Skaller wrote: > The open-ness of the Felix model does make for some > degree of fragility compared to the much more robust > GCaml model, however the GCaml technique is considerably > more verbose, and brevity and easy of naming is one of > the arguments in favour of overloading. However, you have to sacrifice some of the type inferencing in Felix, right? -- Oleg Trott ------------------- 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