On 19 Jul 2003, Luke Palmer wrote:
> [1] It would be totally cool to use a Haskell- or ML-style type
> inference system, but those things just don't work in procedural
> languages.
Could you clarify what you mean by "don't work" here? ML has both
assignment and type inference, so it seems like it
Luke Palmer wrote:
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[1] It would be totally cool to use a Haskell- or ML-style type
inference system, but those things just don't work in procedural
languages.
And they're very slow when not done at compile-time. Try a Haskell
interpreter like hugs vs. a Haskell compiler like ghc.
Steffen
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I've been looking around Objective-C a bit, and I would like to turn
over an old rock.
Remember when I suggested that (static) type equivalence should be
based on interface equivalence? Objective-C seems to feel the same
way. It calls an interface a I, and specifying it is
optional. This maps n