From: brogoff@speakeasy.net
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Cc: "rich@annexia.org" <rich@annexia.org>,
"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml wishlist
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:21:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310220601180.3672-100000@grace.speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031022101438T.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> Overall, I would not characterize ocaml objects as weak, but rather
> nonintuitive.
I agree. They're actually rather powerful. OCaml has multiple inheritance,
whereas Java doesn't.
Unfortunately, they are also nonintuitive, complex, and don't really blend well
with the rest of the language, IMO. I'm thinking of pattern matching here. I
realize that the class system did evolve from an earleir approach based on
records, so it has been thought of before, and there are many issues to
consider...
Still, I hope some future ML variant will address these issues, either by
dispensing with the class system and providing alternative solutions, or maybe
by providing another OO approach (like CLOS/Dylan style) altogether. For now,
OCaml is the only game in town for the working programmer.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 22:34 Richard Jones
2003-10-22 1:14 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-10-22 10:52 ` [Caml-list] OCaml wishlist -> my wish samsaga2
2003-10-22 13:21 ` brogoff [this message]
2003-10-23 0:31 ` [Caml-list] OCaml wishlist Eray Ozkural
2003-10-23 16:55 ` skaller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-21 14:29 Richard Jones
2003-10-21 14:55 ` Michal Moskal
2003-10-21 16:02 ` Richard Jones
2003-10-21 17:28 ` William Lovas
2003-10-21 17:50 ` Richard Jones
2003-10-21 20:27 ` Yaron Minsky
2003-10-21 20:32 ` Yaron Minsky
2003-10-21 21:46 ` Alain.Frisch
2003-10-22 0:59 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-10-22 2:52 ` Brian Hurt
2003-10-22 15:27 ` Michal Moskal
2003-10-21 19:46 ` Alain.Frisch
2003-10-21 15:26 ` Alain.Frisch
2003-10-21 17:38 ` David Brown
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