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=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271C9BB84 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:37:32 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AioDAHXuo0jUnw4Somdsb2JhbACCLo9RAQEBAQEBBwUGCRGja4FV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,210,1217800800"; d="scan'208";a="16119753" Received: from pih-relay05.plus.net ([212.159.14.18]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 14 Aug 2008 17:37:21 +0200 Received: from [90.198.246.64] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay05.plus.net with esmtpa (Exim) id 1KTet6-0001Rg-FZ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:37:20 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: peng.zang@gmail.com, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Typeclasses in OCaml (Was: Haskell vs OCaml) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:38:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200808141121.25463.peng.zang@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200808141121.25463.peng.zang@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808141638.24433.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: ee10f75e342cf8b971a8ae5d60370ffa X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 haskell:01 ocaml:01 inference:01 peng:98 frog:98 wrote:01 typing:01 caml-list:01 essentially:02 implemented:02 static:03 meaningful:04 types:05 uses:07 On Thursday 14 August 2008 16:21:22 Peng Zang wrote: > This gives all the advantages of static typing and type inference and > prevents stupid errors and it is meaningful for all types that it is > implemented for. That is essentially the solution that F# uses. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e