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[Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Operators for Int64 and Int32

On Thursday 03 April 2008 20:50:40 MichaÅ‚ Maciejewski wrote:
> In C you have the same operator '+' for ints and floats. OCaml
> provides you with '+' and '+.' . So why not to have corresponding
> operators for other types?

That solution does not scale because you end up with an enormous number of 
different operators.

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