Re: [Caml-list] Operator overloading

[David Thomas <david_hd@yahoo.com>]

I rather like the idea proposed earlier of being able
to say Module.(expression), where operators within
that expression are drawn exclusively from Module (we
can then say that the entire program is wrapped in an
implicit Pervasives.() which seems somewhat elegant. 
It would allow cleaning up of complex mathematic
expressions while not introducing ambiguities.  It
seems the biggest downside is some possibly
unnecessary complexity.

All of that said, I was not, prior to this discussion,
aware that one could locally override operators
already defined.  I expect this to clean up a bit of
my code when I get to applying it, and having done
that I'll let you all know whether I feel it's
sufficient or would still like to see the extension,
for whatever it's worth (in which case, I'll get
around to learning camlp4, I expect... :-p).


 
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