11 Dec
2003
11 Dec
'03
1:13 p.m.
Robert Will wrote:
Note that in an OO programming language with generic classes ...
(We shouldn't make our functional designs more different from the OO ones, than they need to be.)
why should *we* care :-) more often than not, OO design is resticted and misleading. you see how most OO languages jump through funny hoops (in this case, generics) because they just lack proper higher-order types. good luck with your library. but make sure you study existing (FP) designs, e. g. Chris Okasaki's Edison: http://www.eecs.usma.edu/Personnel/okasaki/pubs.html#hw00 -- -- Johannes Waldmann, Tel/Fax: (0341) 3076 6479 / 6480 -- ------ http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~waldmann/ ---------