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From: Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Operator overloading
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:09:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F089B6.9030005@cs.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F080C8.3070307@janestcapital.com>

Pointers were perhaps a bad example, since pointer arithmetic is incompatible 
with safe languages.  I see no such concern with respect to operator 
overloading, though there are certainly many ways in which it complicates the 
language.

This is one of those never-ending arguments that will never get settled to 
anyone's satisfaction; it's a matter of personal preference.  Why don't we start 
arguing about static versus dynamic typing while we're at it?

Mike


Brian Hurt wrote:
> Tom wrote:
> 
>>
>> Albeit Brian Hurt's comment about operator overloading making more 
>> harm than good in C++, I believe that overloading simply has to be 
>> used appropriately - it's like saying pointers are bad because they 
>> can introduce memory leaks and null references, and division is bad 
>> because it can raise Division_by_zero exceptions.
>>
> So maybe we should introduce pointers into Ocaml?
> 
> Brian
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-08 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-08 20:02 Robert Fischer
2007-03-08 20:15 ` Michael Hicks
2007-03-08 20:50   ` Brian Hurt
2007-03-08 21:05 ` Tom
2007-03-08 21:31   ` Brian Hurt
2007-03-08 22:09     ` Michael Vanier [this message]
2007-03-08 22:34     ` Till Varoquaux
2007-03-09 16:02       ` Brian Hurt
2007-03-10  3:23         ` skaller
2007-03-08 22:14   ` Ian Zimmerman
2007-03-09 10:29     ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09 16:28       ` Ian Zimmerman
2007-03-08 23:51 ` skaller
2007-03-09  7:23   ` Tom
2007-03-09  9:24     ` skaller
2007-03-09  9:32       ` Tom
2007-03-09 10:00         ` skaller
2007-03-09 10:14         ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09 10:38   ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09 10:20 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09 12:08 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-03-09 12:48   ` Jacques Carette
2007-03-09 13:24   ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-03-10  5:08   ` Daniel Andor
2007-03-10  5:33     ` David Thomas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-09 16:40 Robert Fischer
2007-03-09 17:25 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09  7:36 oleg
2007-03-09 11:09 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-03-09 13:52   ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-03-09 15:07     ` skaller
2007-03-09 16:28       ` Andreas Rossberg
2007-03-10  3:13         ` skaller
2007-03-08 23:20 Robert Fischer
2007-03-09 10:31 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-08 14:41 [Caml-list] F# Robert Fischer
2007-03-08 17:30 ` Roland Zumkeller
2007-03-08 17:54   ` Brian Hurt
2007-03-08 19:40     ` [Caml-list] Operator overloading Jon Harrop
2007-03-08 20:44       ` Brian Hurt
2007-03-08 22:24       ` Fernando Alegre
2002-04-15 17:05 [Caml-list] operator overloading Issac Trotts
2002-04-14  4:15 Issac Trotts
2002-04-13  8:43 forsyth
2002-04-13  5:26 Issac Trotts
2002-04-13  1:32 Gurr, David (MED, self)
2002-04-12 19:08 Issac Trotts
2002-04-13  8:48 ` William Chesters
2002-04-13 13:58   ` Brian Rogoff
2002-04-13 15:31     ` William Chesters
2002-04-14  3:10       ` Brian Rogoff
2002-04-13  9:00 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-04-13 21:35 ` Johan Georg Granström
2002-04-14  1:50   ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-04-15 16:22 ` Jun P.FURUSE

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