Re: [Caml-list] Interactive technical computing

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Jon Harrop wrote:

> Finally, I'd like to note that operator overloading is probably the single 
> biggest difference between my F# and OCaml code. The ability to apply + and - 
> to many types, particularly vectors and matrices, makes this kind of work so 
> much easier. Even if you have to add the odd type annotation. So I'd love to 
> see a compatible implementation of overloading introduced into OCaml.

I'm mainly a Linux guy so the chances of me getting up close and personal
with F# are exactly zero :-). However, I am interested in hearing about
the differences between F# and Ocaml wrt operator overloading. Care to
clue me (and everyone else) in?

Cheers,
Erik
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