> After two years, my promises may seem void, but I intend to
> implement polymorphic methods, probably as soon as 3.03 is released.
> Or should I start before?  This is a rather large chunk of work,
> modifying very sensitive parts of the compiler...
> 
> What would you need them for?

I believe my ever-ongoing Caml/Java mapping could make good use of
polymorphic methods.  Indeed, in this particular example of
translating a Java class hierarchy to Caml, polymorphic methods seem
to offer exactly what is needed to simulate Java-like implicit
subsumption with OCaml's row polymorphism.

This said, I understand polymorphic methods impact the type inference
engine quite a lot, and I'm not pushing for additional complexity in
this (already rather hairy) part of the OCaml implementation...

- Xavier Leroy
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