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[Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell

John Goerzen
- Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
  - Danny Yoo
    - Ville-Pertti Keinonen
      - Jon Harrop
        
        Brian Hurt
        
        Jon Harrop
        
        Dmitry Lomov
    - Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
      - Richard Jones
      - Jon Harrop
  - skaller
  - Keith Wansbrough
    - Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
- Christophe TROESTLER
- Jacques GARRIGUE
- skaller
- Richard Jones

Date:	2004-09-28 (18:06)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@j...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 08:22, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> I'm fairly certain that type safety is a significant part of the reason;
> if they were polymorphic, they'd accept any kind of arguments, not just
> numbers.  What's the product of two strings?  A run-time type error?

It seems odd then, that the polymorphic comparisons do raise run-time type 
errors (on functions). I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbled...

I think a static analysis program to pick up on such problems could be very 
useful...

Cheers,
Jon.

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