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From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: Benjamin Geer <ben@socialtools.net>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] does class polymorphism need to be so complicated?
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:05:35 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0308201100130.2616-100000@eagle.ancor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4396F6.1010404@socialtools.net>

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Benjamin Geer wrote:

> class printer =
>    object
>      method print (obj : printable) = obj#print()
>    end ;;

Instead of declaring obj to be printable, why not just declare that it has 
a function print?  Like:

class printer = 
    object
        method print (obj: <print: unit->unit>) = obj#print ();
    end;;

This removes the need for a coercion, as it gets around the need to 
upcast.

Brian


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-20 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-20 15:42 Benjamin Geer
2003-08-20 16:05 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2003-08-20 16:19   ` Richard Jones
2003-08-20 16:25   ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-20 17:09     ` brogoff
2003-08-20 17:25       ` Jacques Carette
2003-08-20 23:34         ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-21 13:27           ` Jacques Carette
2003-08-20 18:19       ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-20 20:39         ` brogoff
2003-08-20 21:04           ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-21  0:28             ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-21  8:17               ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-21  8:58                 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-21  9:38                   ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-21 11:44                     ` Remi Vanicat
2003-08-21 13:11                       ` Richard Jones
2003-08-21 16:41                         ` Remi Vanicat
2003-08-21 18:04                     ` brogoff
2003-08-21 20:20                       ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-21 23:35                         ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-22  3:59                           ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-22  7:12                             ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-21 13:38                   ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-21  0:58             ` brogoff
2003-08-20 23:40           ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-21  1:29             ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-21  9:19               ` Benjamin Geer
2003-08-21 18:44               ` Chris Clearwater
2003-08-20 20:43   ` Issac Trotts

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