From: Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>
To: blue storm <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com>
Cc: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] polymorphic method.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:20:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AAA083E.7070902@citycable.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527cf6bc0909110014s7da89384hdd86fb87f0e1969d@mail.gmail.com>
blue storm a écrit :
>
> With a camlp4 extension, you could inspect the (syntaxically explicit)
> parameters of you method, and (syntaxically) generate a polymorphic
> type for each one : "polymorphic method foo bar baz = ..." would be
> translated into "method foo : 'a 'b . 'a -> 'b -> 'c = fun (bar : 'a)
> (baz : 'b) -> ...".
> This is probably not what you want.
Indeed, it's not what I want.
> but my general advice is not to try to much to do
> type-level transformation by syntaxic transformations : they tend to
> get flawed in ways you don't expect, and this is just not the right
> tool for the job.
Too bad there's no "type checking extension" in Objective Caml. That
would be huge fun.
Thanks.
--
Guillaume Yziquel
http://yziquel.homelinux.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-11 8:24 UTC|newest]
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2009-09-10 12:30 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2009-09-10 12:30 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2009-09-10 12:48 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2009-09-10 13:05 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2009-09-10 14:21 ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-09-10 19:14 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2009-09-11 7:14 ` blue storm
2009-09-11 8:20 ` Guillaume Yziquel [this message]
2009-09-11 8:18 ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-09-11 9:40 ` Guillaume Yziquel
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