On 9/20/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Someday. I'm doing a bit of work on those os wrappers, and it'd really
> > simplify the interface :)
>
> The main issue is that a given function would have a SET of type
> signatures.
>
> I think overload resolution could handle that easily: instead of
>
> T1 -> f1
> T2 -> f2
>
> and match the LHS sig to find the RHS fun to use, just allow
> more entries:
>
> T11 -> f1
> T12 -> f2
> ...
>
>
> Now, actually I lied about 2^N: if we follow the C++/tuple technology,
> then N defaults only makes N+1 functions (all args, the last one
> cut off, the last 2 cut off, etc ..).
>
> Only interesting case then is an array of 20,000 zeros with
> the initial elements specified .. :)
Thats true, but I always hated that about c++. You have to call
functions with such a huge list of temp variables which just make no
sense without referring to some api document. You've dealt with win32,
you know what I mean :)
Plus, if it doesn't automatically generate those intermediary helper
functions, it's just a pain having to do the "f (a:int) => f (a, 1,
2)", "f (a:int, b:int) => f (a, b, 2)", "f(a:int, b:int, c:int) =
{...}", and be a maintenance nightmare if you ever have to propagate
changes to the defaults.
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