From: brogoff <brogoff@speakeasy.net>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] parameterized pattern
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:00:47 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0611141521120.22799@shell2.speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5DD834CDA73854DA0ADC8B3C953C681066F91A5@EUR-MSG-11.europe.corp.microsoft.com>
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Don Syme wrote:
> > I just did a quick scan of some F# docs and
> > I saw nothing. What did you have in mind?
>
> .NET type parameters are extensional, i.e. "you can always find out what
> 'a is at runtime". In particular in C# you can just write "typeof(T)",
> and in F# "(type 'a)", in each case getting a System.Type value.
> Supporting exact runtime types was a design decision we made in the
> early design stages for .NET generics.
As a mostly Java programmer now, I have to say I'm a bit envious. C# generics
look a lot better to me than the Java 5 ones.
What I didn't notice while looking at the F# docs was a way to declare
a generic function/value, where by "generic" here I mean in the GCaml/CLOS
sense, not the Java/Ada sense. Is something like that in F#, or planned?
-- Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 1:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-06 21:15 Serge Aleynikov
2006-11-06 23:58 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2006-11-07 0:12 ` Serge Aleynikov
2006-11-06 23:59 ` Martin Jambon
2006-11-08 23:55 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2006-11-09 1:45 ` brogoff
2006-11-09 5:19 ` Jon Harrop
2006-11-09 8:51 ` skaller
2006-11-09 16:22 ` brogoff
2006-11-09 17:55 ` skaller
2006-11-14 23:12 ` Don Syme
2006-11-15 1:00 ` brogoff [this message]
2006-11-15 1:36 ` Don Syme
2006-11-09 5:18 ` Jon Harrop
2006-11-09 16:42 ` micha
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