From: "Michael D. Adams" <mdmkolbe@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Efficency of varient types
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:07:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c62c8d860512020707x7c545dc5y555d289c0575c7be@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psogoik3.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org>
On 12/1/05, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > I am working on a program that translates code from scheme into ocaml.
> > (Later I will try python into ocaml.) Because it is a dynamicly
> > typed language, the most natural translation would make everything a
> > function of a large variant type like:
>
> Google for "soft typing". You can start without soft typing and add it
> later on to get better performance.
Thanks, it looks very interesting. I haven't into it yet, and I will
be interested to see whether it matches my ideas about how it could be
done (i.e. use subsumption to find the least general generalization
instead of unification to find the least specific substitution like
you would with normal ("hard"?) type inference).
Michael D. Adams
mdmkolbe@gmail.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-02 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-25 23:53 Michael D. Adams
2005-11-26 0:31 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Cannasse
2005-11-26 1:22 ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-26 9:39 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2005-11-28 0:17 ` Obj or not Obj Christophe Raffalli
2005-11-28 8:41 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Cannasse
2005-11-28 9:27 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-11-28 9:33 ` skaller
2005-11-28 8:43 ` Alain Frisch
2005-11-26 2:54 ` [Caml-list] Efficency of varient types skaller
2005-11-27 5:06 ` Michael D. Adams
2005-11-27 5:45 ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-27 10:02 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2005-11-27 15:35 ` Michael D. Adams
2005-11-27 18:08 ` Brian Hurt
2005-12-02 15:07 ` Michael D. Adams
2005-11-26 1:18 ` Jon Harrop
2005-11-27 14:57 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2005-11-27 15:47 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2005-11-28 8:14 ` Christophe Raffalli
2005-11-28 7:24 ` David Baelde
2005-11-28 7:49 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-11-28 10:01 ` Jon Harrop
2005-11-28 10:26 ` Luc Maranget
2005-11-28 7:53 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-12-01 17:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-02 15:07 ` Michael D. Adams [this message]
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