From: Karl Zilles <zilles@1969.ws>
To: Nicolas Cannasse <warplayer@free.fr>
Cc: Lex Stein <stein@eecs.harvard.edu>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] polymorphic methods in objects?
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 10:30:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EDE2CAB.4020801@1969.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002301c32a49$bef062b0$2413f9ca@WARP>
Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> two ways of doing that :
>
> first, having a parameterized object :
>
> class ['a] my_object : object
> method dummy_init : 'a -> unit
> end
>
> But perhaps here you really want that any value passed to your object is ok.
> So you have to use a polymorphic method, which is not bound to the class
> type :
>
> class my_object : object
> method dummy_init : 'a . 'a -> unit
> end
>
> This way, you cannot of course store the parameter into a field of my_object
> this it is not polymorphic.
The stuff Nicolas mentions is covered in sections 3.9 and 3.10 of the
current manual. You should probably read these sections, because use of
polymorphic methods can sometimes require type constraints.
http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual005.html#ss:parameterized-classes
http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual005.html#ss:polymorphic-methods
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2003-06-04 3:07 Lex Stein
2003-06-04 3:31 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-06-04 17:30 ` Karl Zilles [this message]
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