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ambitious proposal: polymorphic arithmetics

Eijiro Sumii
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- Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] ambitious proposal: polymorphic arithmetics

The problem, I'm guessing, is that you add polymorphic +, -, and so
on.  But that's really just a hack in the language.  Sooner or later
people are going to ask why it's not possible to write a polymorphic
'print' function, _without_ hacking the language some more.  At that
point you need a theory, and you need something like G'Caml, or type
classes, or GADTS.

Rich.

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