[Haskell-cafe] Interesting critique of OCaml

Tim Docker timd at macquarie.com.au
Thu May 8 22:04:53 EDT 2008


| An interesting critique of OCaml.
| 
| http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/2008/05/07/why-ocaml-sucks/

Interesting to me is that my pet ocaml peeve is not there: namely the
lack of convenient operator overloading. Admittedly I only used ocaml
for 6 months, but I never adapted to needing to write (+) for ints, and
(.+) for floats.

>From the F# documentation it would appear that F# does have overloaded
numerical operators, at least. I'm not sure how these fit into its type
system however. (Their type is documented as "overloaded").

Tim 



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