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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:	Lauri Alanko <la@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] What about polymorphic methods?

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:55:30PM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> 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 -> ...
                         ^^^

Is this type parameter declaration really necessary? Since class type
parameters are explicitly declared already, can't method-specific type
parameters be recognized automatically?


Lauri Alanko
la@iki.fi
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