Functional dependencies and Constructor Classes

Yoann Padioleau Yoann.Padioleau@irisa.fr
19 Nov 2002 14:20:04 +0100


Martin Sulzmann <sulzmann@comp.nus.edu.sg> writes:

> Yoann Padioleau writes:
>  > nevertheless i found constructor class more elegant for many problems.
>  > Your solution is less elegant that the one using constructor classes.
>  > 
> 
> Yes, the current presentation of constructor classes might be easier
> to comprehend.
> 
>  > I found too that type error messages of class using functionnal depedencies 
>  > are not easy to read. There is often ambiguity in code that are not easy to solver.
>  > this problem does not appear with constructor classes.
>  > 
> 
> Well, that's the point of my encoding of functors using FD's. No
> ambiguities will arise!
> 
> The issue I want to raise is whether constructor classes are redundant
> in the presence of FDs (yes, yes, we still might want to stick to the
> constructor class representation, but that's a different issue).

Oh, sorry, i misinterpret what you wanted to say.


> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 

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