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[Caml-list] What about polymorphic methods?

Alessandro Baretta
- Jacques Garrigue
  - Lauri Alanko
    - Jacques Garrigue
  - Alessandro Baretta
    - Jacques Garrigue
  - John Prevost
  - Alessandro Baretta
    - John Max Skaller
      - Alessandro Baretta
    - John Max Skaller

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Alessandro Baretta <alex@b...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] What about polymorphic methods?



Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> Indeed, iterators are one of the major reasons to have polymorphic
> methods in ocaml (the other one being implicit subtyping of
> arguments). They are already in CVS, and will be present in ocaml
> 3.05.
> 
> With the CVS version, you would have to write
> 
>    method left_iter : 'b. ('a -> 'b) -> 'b list = fun f -> ...
>    method right_iter : 'b. ('a -> 'b) -> 'b list = fun f -> ...

Great! That's what I need! Two questions now: how soon will 
this be officially released? And, is the CVS version stable 
enough for production quality code?

Alex

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