Re: [Caml-list] Variant parameterized method?

[Brian Hurt <brian.hurt@qlogic.com>]

Thanks for your help.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> This precise type is not admissible in the ocaml type system.
> In ocaml recursive types must be regular: only 'a foo may occur in the
> expansion of 'a foo.

Ah.  Any hope of getting this fixed?

> 
> This problem is discussed in an answer to PR#1730 in the caml bug
> database.

Unfortunately, I don't speak french.

> This can be solved by introducing an explicit wrapper.

This is one possibility.

> If you think (as I do) that all these examples are just too
> complicated in practice, there is a simpler way to go:
> only define a fold method in your class, and define map itself out of
> the class.

Maybe I'm asking the wrong question.  I need/want map to behave 
differently when called on different subtypes of foo.  In a pseudo 
java/ocaml mix, I want to do:

let map f x =
    if x instanceof 'a foo_map then
        let e = ('a foo_map) in
        (* various code dealing with an already mapped foo *)
    else
        (* various code dealing with an arbitrary unmapped foo *)

The obvious way to do this to me is to make map a member function.  But 
this wouldn't be the first time I was missing something obvious.

Brian

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