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From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: rathereasy@gmail.com
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] adding methods to object
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:33:53 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080401.153353.71907522.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f74178430803312250n5b9b88fbg73a7342575ccd221@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Jacques Le Normand" <rathereasy@gmail.com>

> is it possible to add methods to an object?
> in other words, if an object has type <a:b,c:d>, is it possible to create an
> object of type <a:b,c:d,e:f> ?

No, you can only add methods to classes.
The only thing you can do with an object is build a wrapper object or
class, which forwards original methods to the base object:

let wrap o =
  object
    method a = o#a
    method c = o#c
    method e = ...
  end

Jacques Garrigue


      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-01  6:34 UTC|newest]

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2008-04-01  5:50 Jacques Le Normand
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