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From: Yitzhak Mandelbaum <yitzhak@research.att.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Mutually recursive functions in different modules
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:16:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0EAAD974-1E2B-4540-9219-F6766FAF1ACD@research.att.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070918.165354.267963120.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

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Beware, though, that recursive modules cannot contain functors. Nor  
can functors be recursive.


On Sep 18, 2007, at 3:53 AM, Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> From: "Arthur Chan" <baguasquirrel@gmail.com>
>> Is it possible to have mutually recursive functions in separate  
>> modules?
>>
>> For example, is it possible for function x in module A to call  
>> function y in
>> module B and vice versa?
>>
>> The reason why I'm asking is because I've written a good bit of my  
>> code with
>> functors, and now I need to make some of the code mutually  
>> recursive, and
>> thus, the mutually recursive functions have to be in separate  
>> modules.
>
> Recursive modules are available. See the "language extensions" section
> of the reference manual.
> (Note that this is about exactly what you asked, i.e. recursive
> modules, not recursion between compilation units.)
>
> Jacques Garrigue
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-18 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18  6:27 Arthur Chan
2007-09-18  7:53 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-09-18 14:16   ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum [this message]
2007-09-18 11:17 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2007-09-19  8:44 ` Julien Signoles
2007-09-19 11:40   ` Andreas Rossberg

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