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From: Keiko Nakata <keiko@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] pattern match on class?
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:31:40 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051125.143140.50050315.keiko@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> (raw)

From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>

>We have anonymous objects now .. but can one pattern
>match on a class as one can on a record?

I might not understand you correctly,
but I think it is impossible 
if you want something like "instance of" in Java.

Because the run-time does not carry type information of values,
it has no way to know the exact type of an object,
nor whether an object is an instance of a particular class.


Keiko NAKATA


             reply	other threads:[~2005-11-25  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-25  5:31 Keiko Nakata [this message]
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2005-11-23 19:52 skaller
2005-11-25  6:13 ` [Caml-list] " brogoff

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