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From: Brian Hurt <brian.hurt@qlogic.com>
To: <brogoff@speakeasy.net>
Cc: David Monniaux <David.Monniaux@ens.fr>,
	hermanns <jan_hermanns@gmx.de>,
	"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why are arithmetic functions not polymorph?
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 13:02:33 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0305231259070.2037-100000@eagle.ancor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305230850350.10692-100000@grace.speakeasy.net>

On Fri, 23 May 2003 brogoff@speakeasy.net wrote:

> > SML has a kind of operator overloading, but I don't know the details.
> 
> SML doesn't allow the user to define overloadings, and that is an 
> abomination. Java is similarly abominable. 
> 

Ocaml allows you to define *new* operators to your heart's content.  You
just can't overload the meanings of old operators.  And frankly, I don't
find that abominable at all.  I don't want to turn this into a C++ 
flamefest (had one of those already this week), but in my experience 
operator overloading is *really* *really* bad.

Brian


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-23 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-22 22:31 hermanns
2003-05-22 23:10 ` Brian Hurt
2003-05-23  1:34 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-05-23  9:56 ` David Monniaux
2003-05-23 10:13   ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-05-23 16:34   ` brogoff
2003-05-23 18:02     ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2003-05-23 18:12       ` Matt Gushee
2003-05-23 20:25       ` brogoff
2003-05-23 21:15         ` Brian Hurt
2003-05-23 21:23           ` brogoff
2003-06-03  3:42         ` John Max Skaller
2003-06-03  4:10           ` Oleg Trott
2003-06-03  6:57             ` John Max Skaller
2003-06-03  3:25       ` John Max Skaller
2003-06-06  7:08         ` easy print and read (was: [Caml-list] Why are arithmetic functions not polymorph?) Oleg Trott
2003-06-06 10:46           ` Pierre Weis
2003-06-06 16:40             ` brogoff
2003-06-07 10:59               ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-06-07 14:44               ` Jun.Furuse
2003-06-08  6:32                 ` brogoff
2003-06-08  8:49             ` Chris Hecker
2003-06-09  9:40               ` Jun.Furuse

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