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[Caml-list] Why are arithmetic functions not polymorph?

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- Brian Hurt
- Nicolas Cannasse
- David Monniaux
  - Ville-Pertti Keinonen
  - brogoff@s...
    - Brian Hurt

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From:	Brian Hurt <brian.hurt@q...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Why are arithmetic functions not polymorph?

On Fri, 23 May 2003 brogoff@speakeasy.net wrote:

> > SML has a kind of operator overloading, but I don't know the details.
> 
> SML doesn't allow the user to define overloadings, and that is an 
> abomination. Java is similarly abominable. 
> 

Ocaml allows you to define *new* operators to your heart's content.  You
just can't overload the meanings of old operators.  And frankly, I don't
find that abominable at all.  I don't want to turn this into a C++ 
flamefest (had one of those already this week), but in my experience 
operator overloading is *really* *really* bad.

Brian

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