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From: "Chris King" <colanderman@gmail.com>
To: "Arnaud Spiwack" <aspiwack@lix.polytechnique.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Execution time of class versus record
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:11:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875c7e070706241211g37d3b28r61656020da21f973@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467EBD16.7060303@lix.polytechnique.fr>

On 6/24/07, Arnaud Spiwack <aspiwack@lix.polytechnique.fr> wrote:
> Another lead is maybe something due to module compilation, the
> earlier idea might imply that each module has it's own namespace (it's
> the case for almost everything in OCaml, except, if I'm not mistaking,
> method names).

And polymorphic variants.  If you consider objects as extensible
records, ignoring instance variables and initializers and pretending
they support pattern matching and the "with" syntax, then their design
is essentially the record analogue of polymorphic variants.  Hence a
global namespace.

- Chris


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-24 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-24 15:14 tmp123
2007-06-24 15:29 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-06-24 15:48   ` Till Varoquaux
2007-06-24 16:06     ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-06-24 18:18       ` skaller
2007-06-24 18:29       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-06-24 18:51         ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-06-24 19:11           ` Chris King [this message]
2007-06-25  3:25           ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-25 11:16             ` Arnaud Spiwack
2007-06-25 12:07               ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-25 23:59                 ` Jonathan Bryant
2007-06-26  0:15                   ` Chris King
2007-06-26  6:53                     ` Loup Vaillant
2007-06-26  7:02                       ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-26 17:07                         ` Loup Vaillant
2007-06-28  1:13                 ` Christian Stork
2007-06-26 13:35 ` Sam Steingold
2007-06-26 16:29   ` [Caml-list] " Quôc Peyrot

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