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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D57EBBC1 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:45:52 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhMDAG/n7EfUnw6Gb2dsb2JhbACCOI57AQwFAgUHGJlM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,572,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8923494" Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.134]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 28 Mar 2008 20:45:52 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JfKWN-0006Bg-Mv for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:45:51 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The Bridge Pattern in OCaml Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:47:52 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <4a051d930803190929q60d31012kb6c9d2b03a2d2ca6@mail.gmail.com> <91a2ba3e0803281123o68e86a1ej1d91f838c753232d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <91a2ba3e0803281123o68e86a1ej1d91f838c753232d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803281947.52878.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 61752f557f5a1cd2f5544d31bf9b6ddc X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 serialize:01 frog:98 wrote:01 rewrite:01 caml-list:01 functions:01 arbitrary:02 data:02 languages:03 languages:03 pattern:04 ltd:87 question:13 products:86 On Friday 28 March 2008 18:23:56 Raoul Duke wrote: > clueless question: are there languages which really can de/serialize > arbitrary functions? Rewrite languages can do that easily because code really is data. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e