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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@inria.fr>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamlbuild and automatic dependencies
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:46:38 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173930398.31293.4.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F861C3.3050001@inria.fr>

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 21:57 +0100, Alain Frisch wrote:
> skaller wrote:
> > That links fine -- why would you expect introducing
> > an alias to change the compilation requirements?
> 
> Just in case: there is no such thing as module aliasing in OCaml (for a
> decent definition of aliasing). In particular, after writing "module A =
> B", it is not always valid to replace occurrences of B with occurrences
> of A.

Hmm .. another weirdness of the module system. You say
"it is not always valid" .. so when is it valid?

I have to say after quite some time writing Ocaml I still
don't really understand modules. 

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-15  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-14 12:14 Joel Reymont
2007-03-14 12:24 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
2007-03-14 12:36   ` Joel Reymont
2007-03-14 12:43     ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-03-14 12:47       ` Joel Reymont
2007-03-14 13:11         ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-03-14 20:11           ` skaller
2007-03-14 20:57             ` Alain Frisch
2007-03-15  3:46               ` skaller [this message]
2007-03-16 14:00           ` Joel Reymont
2007-03-16 14:22             ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2007-03-17  0:18               ` skaller
2007-03-17  3:01                 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2007-03-17  8:14                 ` Alain Frisch
2007-03-17 13:52                   ` Modules for Dummies skaller
2007-03-16 14:40             ` [Caml-list] ocamlbuild and automatic dependencies Jacques Garrigue

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