From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: Jonathan Roewen <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] C++ templates to OCaml
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:53:31 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0506192151350.23479@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad8cfe7e05061823535934e9c@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the best way to imitate C++ templates in OCaml? I have some
> code that makes extensive use of templates that I want to rewrite in
> OCaml, and using record types and functions is getting messy, and a
> lot more convoluted than the C++ code.
>
> Are objects the way to go here? And if so, can someone give me a
> simple example of how this would work?
95-99% of the uses of templates are easily replaced with either universal
types (so List<T> becomes 'a list) or with templates (see Set and Map).
The remainder is template meta programming, for which you probably need
pcaml, or I'd recommend rethinking the approach (template metaprogramming
is, IMHO, one of things wrong with C++).
Brian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 2:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-19 6:53 Jonathan Roewen
2005-06-19 13:17 ` Jacques Carette
2005-06-19 18:05 ` padiolea
[not found] ` <1119175572.7402.1.camel@titania>
2005-06-19 21:32 ` Jonathan Roewen
2005-06-19 22:34 ` Benjamin Geer
2005-06-20 2:53 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
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