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From: Abdallah Saffidine <abdallah.saffidine@gmail.com>
To: "AUGER Cédric" <sedrikov@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "Modules Matter Most"
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:42:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALx9x4efvL92gkuBFdPndz6cNEXuRb8-rG++ng4xLOCrUVJrTA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120228134649.33962978@gmail.com>

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2012/2/28 AUGER Cédric <sedrikov@gmail.com>

>
> I find the posts on this blogs too much Ocaml biased. Ok, haskell has
> not modules and it is somewhat missing, but using TypeFamilies, you can
> emulate modules (and even 1st order modules which are available in Ocaml
> only since 3.11 or 3.12), and in the other hand there is still not yet
> any convenient way to have type classes in Ocaml. And it is not very
> often that I would like to implement a module where a simple type class
> wouldn't fit.
>
> Are type classes planned in the future (and if not, what are the
> reasons not to have it)?.
>

I guess you might be interested in the following article ML Modules and
Haskell Type Classes: A Constructive
Comparison<http://www.springerlink.com/content/m7v201w152h03670/>

Abdallah

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 14:38 oliver
2012-02-28 12:46 ` AUGER Cédric
2012-02-28 19:42   ` Abdallah Saffidine [this message]
2012-03-05  2:25     ` Milan Stanojević
2012-03-05  8:57       ` AUGER Cédric

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