From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E84EBC91 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:45:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net (ptb-relay01.plus.net [212.159.14.212]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l29AixbH022832 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:45:00 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1HPcan-0003xq-Gg for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:44:59 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Operator overloading Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:38:55 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <3D1E4D9CA9BCE04D8F2B55F203AE4CE30666AB74@selma.roomandboard.com> <1173397864.6613.49.camel@rosella.wigram> In-Reply-To: <1173397864.6613.49.camel@rosella.wigram> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703091038.55393.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 45F13AAB.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; overloading:01 overloading:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 frog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 argument:02 argument:02 string:02 types:03 thu:05 example:10 fischer:11 On Thursday 08 March 2007 23:51, skaller wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:02 -0600, Robert Fischer wrote: > > When I see "+", I want to know what that means. With operator > > overloading, I don't know. > > This argument is fallacious: When you see + you know it means addition > of whatever argument types are used. Not necessarily. It also means set union and string concatenation in F#, for example. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. OCaml for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists