From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: wiedergaenger@fastmail.fm
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] generic functions
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:56:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050109145629.GA6290@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050109131928.GA1759@wafthrudnir>
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:19:29PM +0100, wiedergaenger@fastmail.fm wrote:
> 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.
The general solution is GCaml
(http://pauillac.inria.fr/~furuse/generics/README.gcaml) which is not
part of OCaml core.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-09 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-09 13:19 wiedergaenger
2005-01-09 14:56 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-01-09 15:48 ` [Caml-list] " 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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