From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-09-30T18:16:22+09:00
Subject: Re: python <=> ruby

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello MikkelFJ,
> 
> Sunday, September 29, 2002, 3:31:33 PM, you wrote:
> 
> M> When comparing at functional language like OCaml (ignoring it's object
> M> system) to Ruby, it doesn't really matter whether you write "find obj 2" or
> M> you write "obj.find 2". However, it does matter whether you write "Hash.find
> M> obj 2" or you write "List.find obj 2". In other words, the functional style
> M> requires you to know what kind of an object you are dealing with and use the
> 
> no, it's dealed by overloading mechanism
> 

OCaml has no overloading. but it would badly need it, I have seen
an experimental implementation of it, but only for an older version
of OCaml.

Regards, Christian