From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Berke Durak <berke.durak@exalead.com>
Cc: Caml-list List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Objects, dynamic cast, Obj.magic abuse and dragons
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:48:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080226144828.GA27938@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C421F1.8000608@exalead.com>
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:28:01PM +0100, Berke Durak wrote:
> Your solution first seemed like a kludge but, given the alternatives, it
> appears to be the best solution.
[...]
> And it's reasonably efficient (after all, we're using objects here.)
Yeah, I suspect the real lesson here is don't use objects at all.
They are rarely as useful as people make out, and most uses of them
seem to be because lesser languages lack good compiler checks on
variants. After all, there's no real problem at all spreading match
statements around the program if I can be sure that the compiler will
highlight everywhere which needs to change when I change my variant.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-26 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-26 11:35 Berke Durak
2008-02-26 12:14 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-02-26 14:28 ` Berke Durak
2008-02-26 14:48 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2008-02-26 14:59 ` Berke Durak
2008-02-27 13:26 ` Tiphaine.Turpin
2008-02-29 10:36 ` Berke Durak
2008-02-29 12:23 ` Tiphaine.Turpin
2008-02-26 12:48 ` ketti
2008-02-26 13:10 ` Berke Durak
2008-02-26 15:07 ` Dirk Thierbach
2008-02-26 16:25 ` Berke Durak
2008-02-27 7:37 ` Dirk Thierbach
2008-02-27 10:26 ` Berke Durak
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