On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | I agree with Waldek (in a different thread). I think the original > | developers of Axiom explicitly decided against variable name > | overloading. Do you know of any mainstream language where > | this is a common programming paradigm? > > I forgot to ask: Do you know of a mainstream programming > language where the Union proposal is a common programming > paradigm? >
That's a fair question but I expect you already know the answer. :-) I would suggest the following list: Algol, ML, Haskell, Pascal, Ada, Modula-2 and C++ (Boost) from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union None of these support overloaded variable names, so far as I know. Regards, Bill Page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
