From: "Jake Donham" <jake.donham@skydeck.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why can't I call a function over a subclass?
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:49:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7e4e9f0710051849p3ba668c2s4070795dc96c6a5f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878x6hny0e.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr>
Hi Luca,
Others have given good replies already but you may find this article helpful:
http://skydeck.com/blog/programming/ocaml-for-the-recovering-java-programmer-part-1-objects-and-subtyping/
What it comes down to is that in OCaml subsumption (i.e. the whole
idea of object oriented programming) is accomplished using
polymorphism, not implicit coercion.
Jake
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-06 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-05 7:48 Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 8:01 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Hars
2007-10-05 8:08 ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 8:08 ` Fwd: " Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 11:08 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-05 11:47 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-10-05 10:30 ` David Teller
2007-10-05 10:53 ` Zheng Li
2007-10-05 14:02 ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2007-10-05 14:59 ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 15:12 ` Luca de Alfaro
[not found] ` <20071005152130.M41697@cs.unm.edu>
2007-10-05 15:49 ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 16:34 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-10-05 17:39 ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-10-05 17:49 ` Martin Jambon
[not found] ` <28fa90930710052153k2128bb63m5132455868eb2008@mail.gmail.com>
2007-10-07 22:19 ` Martin Jambon
2007-10-07 22:57 ` Classes and polymorphism (Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why can't I call a function over a subclass?) Martin Jambon
2007-10-05 19:48 ` Why can't I call a function over a subclass? Zheng Li
2007-10-06 1:49 ` Jake Donham [this message]
2007-10-09 4:18 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-10-05 8:07 ` [Caml-list] " Pietro Abate
2007-10-05 10:55 ` Andrej Bauer
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