From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Duplicate functionality?
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:31:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510220431.18749.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0IOQ006I7LO24OK2@vms044.mailsrvcs.net>
On Saturday 22 October 2005 02:04, Stephen Brackin wrote:
> My biggest initial question is why OCaml has both a modules system and
> objects: Aren't they different ways of accomplishing the same things?
Both modules and objects allow you to encapsulate related definitions, yes.
However, modules are much more static by nature and objects are much more
dynamic, i.e. you get stronger static checking using modules than you do
using objects, giving more comprehensible error messages and more robust and
faster code.
Consequently, OCaml programmers tend to prefer modules over objects where
possible.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
Objective CAML for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-22 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-22 1:04 Stephen Brackin
2005-10-22 3:31 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2005-10-22 5:57 ` [Caml-list] " Matt Gushee
2005-10-22 8:47 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-10-22 5:49 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-10-22 10:07 ` Lauri Alanko
2005-10-22 21:12 ` Brian Hurt
2005-10-24 3:14 ` Ant: " Martin Chabr
2005-10-25 16:25 ` Didier Remy
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