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status of some big "important" features?

Chris Hecker
- Daniel de Rauglaudre
  - John Max Skaller
  - Chris Hecker
    - Daniel de Rauglaudre
      - Chris Hecker
        
        Daniel de Rauglaudre
        
        William Chesters
- Christophe Raffalli
  - Didier Remy
    - Christophe Raffalli

Date:	2000-12-30 (19:10)
From:	Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@i...>
Subject:	Re: status of some big "important" features?

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:47:08PM -0800, Chris Hecker wrote:

> PS.  Minor question I thought of the other day...is there any way to
> write "nth" for tuples (as opposed to "fst", which is hard-coded to
> 2-tuples)?  This is related to the overloading and generic questions
> above, but it also touches on some introspection issues, since nth
> would need to know the "length" of the tuple to either recurse or
> loop.  I guess I could use camlp4 for this if I really wanted
> to...couldn't I?

Impossible in Camlp4, it is a typing problem.

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