From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE678BC48 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:50:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j36IoOjj020670 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:50:24 +0200 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 UAA15239 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:50:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from saul.cis.upenn.edu (SAUL.CIS.upenn.edu [158.130.12.4]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j36IoL8a020665 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:50:23 +0200 Received: from localhost (SAUL.CIS.upenn.edu [158.130.12.4]) by saul.cis.upenn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j36IoKCP006928; Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:50:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:50:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20050406.145019.90114474.eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp> To: caml-list@inria.fr Cc: sumii@saul.cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ambitious proposal: polymorphic arithmetics From: Eijiro Sumii In-Reply-To: <20050406163915.GC15547@force.stwing.upenn.edu> References: <20050406.111505.68543084.eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp> <20050406163915.GC15547@force.stwing.upenn.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.2 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.1 (AOI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42542F70.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42542F6D.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 eijiro:01 sumii:01 eijiro:01 sumii:01 lovas:01 wlovas:01 stwing:01 upenn:01 ...:98 equality:01 polymorphic:01 polymorphic:01 anet:02 seems:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Thanks to everybody for the excitements!:-) From: "William Lovas" > Many experts (and perhaps some novices *shrug*) think that polymorphic > equality is a bad idea... I'm almost tempted to agree.:-) As other responses have also suggested, the issue seems to be "where to draw the line." If so, I can perhaps restate my question as: why is the line drawn between = and + now? Is it the best? Eijiro