On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Mark Wotton wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Clemens Hintze wrote:
> 
> > Two things I would like to ask you right now:
> > 
> > - What does subtyping exactly mean in OCaml resp. functional
> >   programming?
> > - What means covariance and contravariance of types and subtypes?
> 
> Not being an Ocaml guru, I shan't attempt the first question.
> The second's pretty easy, though: covariance is the sane way of doing OO,
> and contravariance is bizarre. (Right, if there's any Eiffel devotees on
> here, I've just started a flamewar. :)

Of course, in a post talking about someone else's English, it's almost
inevitable that I'm going to get it wrong myself. s/there's/there are/g.

mrak
looking forward to the mistake in this one.


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