From: brogoff@speakeasy.net
To: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Obj.magic, Obj.t etc.
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:54:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308150833520.1392-100000@grace.speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308151252.32049.qrczak@knm.org.pl>
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> IMHO a separate float_array type would be better.
I agree.
> The main problem is that it would need a different syntax for element access
> and separate versions of Array functions. You couldn't use the same code polymorphically for int
> and float arrays, but we don't have polymorphic arithmetic anyway...
Also, we already have the same problem now with respect to array syntax for
strings and bigarrays (and hashtables and ...).
> I wonder if it's improved when generics are adopted.
I think it will improve a lot of things, if something like generics is in the
language. However, there is another issue lurking here, about whether the
Array element is boxed or not. In the Clean language the distinction is in the
type system.
-- Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-15 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-13 18:49 Christopher Dutchyn
2003-08-14 1:55 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-14 8:22 ` Florian Douetteau
2003-08-14 8:34 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-14 10:45 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2003-08-15 0:14 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-08-15 10:32 ` skaller
2003-08-15 10:52 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2003-08-15 15:54 ` brogoff [this message]
2003-08-15 10:31 ` skaller
2003-08-18 10:04 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-08-19 7:33 ` Jacques Garrigue
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