From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
Cc: Jean-Marc Alliot <alliot@recherche.enac.fr>,
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Overloading again (Was Re: [Caml-list] Interfacing C++ and Ocaml)
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:47:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD15AF1.AF241DB3@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104020824270.7294-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>
Brian Rogoff wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Jean-Marc Alliot wrote:
> > Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > > My opinion with regard to overloading is that what is really
> > > problematic about overloading in C++ is the *combination* of
> > > overloading and implicit conversions.
>
> I agree with Fergus on this.
This is not just a matter of opinion but mathematics.
There is a paper dealing with the interaction of generics
and implicit conversions which details conditions under which
both can coexist without ambiguity:
Using Category Theory to Design Implicit Conversions
and Generic Operators, John C Reynolds,
Theoretical Aspects of Object-Oriented Programming,
Gunter and Mitchell, MIT Press ISBN 0-262-07155-X
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-09 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-30 8:54 [Caml-list] Interfacing C++ and Ocaml David Chemouil
2001-03-30 9:13 ` Bruce Hoult
2001-03-30 9:24 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-03-30 16:50 ` Overloading again (Was Re: [Caml-list] Interfacing C++ and Ocaml) Brian Rogoff
2001-04-02 8:13 ` Jean-Marc Alliot
2001-04-02 13:48 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-04-02 14:30 ` Jean-Marc Alliot
2001-04-02 15:49 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 6:47 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
2001-04-02 15:51 ` Brock
2001-03-30 20:41 Hao-yang Wang
2001-04-01 20:15 ` Sven LUTHER
2001-04-02 11:07 ` Sven LUTHER
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