Existential types, object-orientation.

Erik Zuurbier F.S.A.Zuurbier@inter.nl.net
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:51:58 +0100


Rinus Plasmeijer wrote:

>One of the important limitations of existential typed structures is that the
>>concrete type cannot be inspected from "outside".

Is this a fundamental impossibility, or could the type-matching trick, used
with Dynamics (doing a run time unification), just as well be implemented
for Existential types?

Greetings

Erik Zuurbier