On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:52:53 +0200, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > * Jeremy Bem: > > > Yes and no, respectively. In other words, nothing new here. > > Oh. I just happen to think that those two are very high on the list > of things you want to fix once you can start with a clean slate. > > > Is there a better approach to polymorphic equality floating around? > > Besides type classes? I'm not sure. It's probably possible to remove > this feature from the language, with a little bit of syntactic > overhead to pass around a matching comparison function.
Yes for instance the very concise local opening notation comes in handy here: if Int.(x = 42) then ... else ... -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
