From: wiedergaenger@fastmail.fm
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: generic functions
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:19:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050109131928.GA1759@wafthrudnir> (raw)
I just got from LISP to OCaml, and wondered if there is an equivalent of
generic functions from LISP (CLOS) in OCaml. In the Common Lisp Object
System methods don't belong to certain objects/classes. They are just
function specializing on the argument types. So basically I want to
write something like:
let foo (x : int) = x*x;;
let foo (x : float) = x*.x;;
This, obviously, will not work since foo is just redefined by the second
statement. One would think, that having methods not being belonging to
objects/classes, is rather pointless. Well 95% of the time, there is no
necessity for that. But in the other 5%, it is really helpful.
next reply other threads:[~2005-01-09 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-09 13:19 wiedergaenger [this message]
2005-01-09 14:56 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2005-01-09 15:48 ` Brian Hurt
2005-01-09 17:17 ` David McClain
2005-01-09 18:09 ` brogoff
2005-01-09 18:45 ` padiolea
2005-01-10 0:23 ` skaller
2005-01-11 12:14 ` Daniel Yokomizo
2005-01-10 9:55 ` [Caml-list] " Alex Baretta
2005-01-10 10:47 ` Olivier Andrieu
2005-01-10 12:16 ` Alex Baretta
2005-01-12 23:49 ` Aleksey Nogin
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