From: "Andreas Rossberg" <AndreasRossberg@web.de>
To: <ocaml_beginners@yahoogroups.com>, <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Rephrasing of dynamic module selection problem
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:07:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005f01c636c6$4300aca0$15b2a8c0@wiko> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0602201950230.17102@shell2.speakeasy.net>
"brogoff" <brogoff@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> There are other MLs where you can pack a module into some manipulable
> entity, but OCaml isn't one of them. Once you go there I wonder why not
> just remove all differences between modules and records, since the two
> things seem very similar.
Simple answer: type inference. You can do it for records, but not for
modules, because their type system is much too higher-order. In fact, even
type /checking/ may easily become undecidable.
These probably aren't unsurmountable problems, but unfortunately unsolved
yet.
- Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-21 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-21 0:54 Nathan Cooprider
2006-02-21 3:49 ` "ocaml_beginners"::[] " Martin Jambon
2006-02-21 3:55 ` [Caml-list] " brogoff
2006-02-21 9:07 ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2006-02-21 9:55 ` Virgile Prevosto
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