From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Default values for structures (feature request)
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:31:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040603093106.GA26175@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040602.215655.68536952.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:56:55PM +0900, Jacques GARRIGUE wrote:
> From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
>
> > Could have a syntax for default values for structures? Something
> > like:
> >
> > type t = { field1 : int = 0;
> > field2 : string; (* no default *)
> > }
>
> The difficulty should be apparent in your example: this supposes
> writing values in interfaces, which would be a major (huge) change in
> language design...
Out of interest, is there a theoretical reason why types shouldn't
contain values, or is it just because it's a lot of work to change the
compiler?
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-03 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-02 12:12 Richard Jones
2004-06-02 12:56 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-06-03 9:30 ` Sven Luther
2004-06-03 16:33 ` Christopher Dutchyn
2004-06-03 9:31 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2004-06-03 16:34 ` Christopher Dutchyn
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