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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:22:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804032322.02871.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <906164100804031250k1d77b639ie1dbd203943904c0@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 03 April 2008 20:50:40 Michał Maciejewski wrote:
> In C you have the same operator '+' for ints and floats. OCaml
> provides you with '+' and '+.' . So why not to have corresponding
> operators for other types?

That solution does not scale because you end up with an enormous number of 
different operators.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-03 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03 14:08 Michał Maciejewski
2008-04-03 15:24 ` David Allsopp
2008-04-03 15:44   ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-04-03 19:00   ` David Thomas
2008-04-03 19:50   ` Michał Maciejewski
2008-04-03 22:22     ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-04-03 17:15 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-03 20:17 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-04-03 20:39   ` Michał Maciejewski
2008-04-03 22:02     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-04-03 22:17   ` Richard Jones
2008-04-04  1:47     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-04-04 17:58       ` Adrien
2008-04-04 21:07         ` Richard Jones
2008-04-06 17:34           ` Adrien

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