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From: Tom <tom.primozic@gmail.com>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Polymorphic Variants
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:32:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1490a380701161232u7b60e286l163a4a5837d3083c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I have a question... I hope it will not be dismissed right away, thou I
guess most of you will find it stupid (some might however agree with me...
hopefully).

Cut the crap!

So... why actually are polymorphic variants useful? Why can't they simply be
implemented as normal, concrete (or how would you call them? ...) variants?
Doesn't the use of polymorphic variants just mess up the function type?

I'm not orthogonally against polymorphic variants, it's just that I am
looking for an alternative concept that could be used instead... Maybe
subtyped records?

- Tom

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-16 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-16 20:32 Tom [this message]
2007-01-16 20:49 ` [Caml-list] " Seth J. Fogarty
2007-01-16 21:05   ` Tom
2007-01-16 21:23     ` Seth J. Fogarty
2007-01-16 21:45       ` Edgar Friendly
2007-01-16 22:18       ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-01-17  5:55       ` skaller
2007-01-17  0:30 ` Jonathan Roewen
2007-01-17  2:19 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2007-01-17  3:24   ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-18  2:12     ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-01-17  6:09   ` skaller
2007-01-17 13:34     ` Andrej Bauer
2007-01-17 21:13   ` Tom
2007-01-17 22:53     ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-17 23:07       ` Tom
     [not found]         ` <200701172349.53331.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
     [not found]           ` <c1490a380701180407j670a7cccyb679c71fde20aa4b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-18 16:23             ` Fwd: " Tom
2007-01-18 21:14               ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-19  9:26                 ` Dirk Thierbach
2007-01-19 10:35                   ` Tom
2007-01-19 11:14                     ` Dirk Thierbach
2007-01-19 12:03                       ` Tom
2007-01-18 21:43       ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-01-18  1:28     ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-01-18  1:46       ` Jon Harrop
2007-01-18  4:05       ` skaller
2007-01-18  6:20         ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-01-18  9:48           ` skaller
2007-01-18 12:23       ` Tom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-09  8:52 polymorphic variants David Chemouil
2000-06-09 19:04 ` Markus Mottl
2000-06-09 20:03 ` Markus Mottl

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