Hello Ralf, Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Try to define this apply function. > > Important, I want to have as much type safety as possible, i.e. If I > would have written > > c := m(1, "x", false); > > the compiler should already shout that the type of the first argument > doesn't fit.
Initial thinking suggests that this would be difficult, if not impossible, to implement genericly using static types. I know of no way to specify a non-homogeneous `cross' of arbitrary dimension, for use as a meaningfull signature for `m' which the compiler could check. Its been said before that static typing, when pushed to the limit, becomes equivalent to dynamic typing -- that is to say, they are not polar opposites. Certainly this kind of generality is not on the radar for me any time soon. > > Good luck. > > Ralf Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
