Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint
Remi Vanicat
vanicat+invalid at labri.fr
Thu Oct 23 08:28:16 EDT 2003
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au> writes:
> Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters <mertz at gnosis.cx> writes:
>
>>Joachim Durchholz <joachim.durchholz at web.de> writes:
>>>My 100% subjective private study reveals not a single complaint about
>>>over-restrictive type systems in comp.lang.functional in the last 12
>>>months.
>>
>>I also read c.l.functional (albeit only lightly). In the last 12
>>months, I have encountered dozens of complaints about over-restrictive
>>type sytems in Haskell, OCaml, SML, etc.
>>
>>The trick is that these complaints are not phrased in precisely that
>>way. Rather, someone is trying to do some specific task, and has
>>difficulty arriving at a usable type needed in the task. Often posters
>>provide good answers--Durchholz included. But the underlying complaint
>>-really was- about the restrictiveness of the type system.
>
> Could you provide a link to an example of such a post?
I've no link but I'm sure to have seen (here or on one of the caml
list) people trying to do polymorphic recursion, something that is not
easy to do in ocaml...
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Rémi Vanicat
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