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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:	-- (:)
From:	skaller <skaller@u...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Observations on OCaml vs. Haskell

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 06:24, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:08:51PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:

> Performance again.  The reason why there are so many numeric types in
> OCaml is performance.  

Also it is related to compatibility with external libraries.

> The compiler could very easily make the arithmetic operators polymorphic,
> and constrain the operands to be of the same (numeric) type

G'Caml generics would handle this easily, without 
need to 'kludge' the Ocaml compiler. 

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