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[Caml-list] Understanding why Ocaml doesn't support operator overloading.

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From:	Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld <jhf@h...>
Subject:	[Caml-list] Understanding why Ocaml doesn't support operator overloading.

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Hi.
Some time ago, when looking at Ocaml for the first time, I got baffled by the 
lack of operator overloading. I am still wondering why this is the case. 
Could someone please point me to more information about this?

I remember reading something about operator overloading and type inference 
beeing hard to combine. A little googleing brought me, amongst many things, 
what seems to be a paper about the subject:
"http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/581478.581495"
(No I haven't read the paper yet, but it seemed ontopic)


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