From: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>
To: Leo White <leo@lpw25.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Are implicit modules too implicit?
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:57:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86si08g9ee.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456928656.1475915.537363338.6E334EDB@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Leo White's message of "Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:24:16 -0500")
Leo White <leo@lpw25.net> writes:
>> In the paper, the Show implementation for an int is called Show_int and
>> for list Show_list, etc. But this is just a pleasant convention in the
>> paper.
>
> And could easily be a pleasant convention in a library. Or possibly [Int.Show]
> and [List.Show]. It's really a just a question of using sensible
> library design.
I'm just a bit concerned about relying on convention for such a powerful
feature.
FWIW, I don't use merlin, although maybe I'll start. One of the
strengths of Ocaml, IMO, is how much information is local to the
call-site and implicits seem to allow spooky action at a distance which
makes me a bit uneasy.
Perhaps I'm overreacting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-02 12:16 Malcolm Matalka
2016-03-02 13:37 ` Leo White
2016-03-02 13:59 ` Malcolm Matalka
2016-03-02 14:17 ` Yaron Minsky
2016-03-02 14:24 ` Leo White
2016-03-02 15:57 ` Malcolm Matalka [this message]
2016-03-02 18:59 ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-03-02 14:30 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2016-03-02 15:09 ` Leo White
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