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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A0EBBCA for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:31:17 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArECAEb39EfUnw7Ub2dsb2JhbACCOI8aAQwFAgUHGJon X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,600,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="24572948" Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.212]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Apr 2008 00:31:17 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JhXxk-0004Bp-Eh for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:31:16 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:22:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <906164100804030708p3e2788a0p29b69f4d46600622@mail.gmail.com> <002201c8959e$cb9e74f0$017ca8c0@countertenor> <906164100804031250k1d77b639ie1dbd203943904c0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <906164100804031250k1d77b639ie1dbd203943904c0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804032322.02871.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 456ce5530e18675cedce1825f2fde194 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 frog:98 wrote:01 ints:01 caml-list:01 int:01 int:01 floats:02 types:05 end:12 ltd:87 products:86 does:14 solution:14 www:84 On Thursday 03 April 2008 20:50:40 Micha=C5=82 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= =20 different operators. =2D-=20 Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e