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 UAA10298; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:46:33 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA10838 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:46:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.davidb.org (adsl-64-172-240-129.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.172.240.129]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8GIkUG3000887 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:46:31 +0200 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.41 #1 (Debian)) id 1C81H3-00068Z-Bg; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:46:29 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:54:27 -0600 From: David Brown To: Christopher Alexander Stein Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] dynamic dispatch Message-ID: <20040916165427.GA19376@tg4.qualcomm.com> References: <20040916124228.J86497@bowser.eecs.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040916124228.J86497@bowser.eecs.harvard.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4149DF86.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 caml-list:01 2004:99 0400,:01 stein:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 alexander:01 sep:01 syntax:02 dave:03 wrote:03 obj:03 dynamic:03 dynamic:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:44:40PM -0400, Christopher Alexander Stein wrote: > Hi, Is it possible to use the Caml OO features to implement > dynamic dispatch (without using type system back doors such as > Obj.Magic or object serialization)? Or are the OO features just > syntax. Thank you, Lex Dynamic dispatch is the main feature of Ocaml OO. Dave ------------------- 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