On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Nicolas Pouillard < nicolas.pouill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ... > That's very nice. I don't think type classes are conservative enough for this project, but this comes very close indeed. I haven't really had a chance to explore OCaml 3.12 yet, as it came out while I was working on this, but I will give this serious consideration. -Jeremy
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