From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA01714; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:19:02 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA01709 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:19:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA20183 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:47:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp41.dyn147.pacific.net.au [210.23.147.41]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f396lZf07102 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:47:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA01261; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:47:13 +1000 Message-ID: <3AD15AF1.AF241DB3@ozemail.com.au> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:47:13 +1000 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Rogoff CC: Jean-Marc Alliot , Fergus Henderson , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Overloading again (Was Re: [Caml-list] Interfacing C++ and Ocaml) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr