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From: rlehy@free.fr
To: Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Exceptionless error management, take 2
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:52:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202467938.47ac3462d077a@imp.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080208095333.GA582@snarc.org>

Selon Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 12:17:29AM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> > And [polymorphic variants] _cannot_ pollute any namespace,
> > since they define nothing.
> they "pollute" since the polymorphic variant namespace is flat, and
> don't interact with module (on purpose obviously)

Could you please expand on this "pollution" and the *practical* problems it
causes? I can see the risk of my own identifiers clashing with those of a
library, and that finding documentation when the namespace is flat is harder.
But none of these seem applicable for polymorphic variants, so I feel like I'm
missing something.

-- 
Ronan


  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-07 15:01 David Teller
2008-02-07 15:09 ` [Caml-list] " Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-07 16:40   ` David Teller
2008-02-07 15:17 ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-02-07 15:22   ` Jon Harrop
2008-02-08  9:54     ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-07 15:52   ` David Teller
2008-02-07 16:06     ` Olivier Andrieu
2008-02-07 16:23       ` David Teller
2008-02-08  9:53   ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-08 10:52     ` rlehy [this message]
2008-02-08 11:56       ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-08 12:40         ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-02-08 15:39           ` David Teller
2008-02-08 17:06             ` Eric Cooper
2008-02-08 20:02               ` David Teller
2008-02-08 19:29             ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-02-08 21:13               ` David Teller
2008-02-10 12:35           ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-08 19:07     ` Jon Harrop
2008-02-10 11:58       ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-02-10 16:51       ` Matthew William Cox
2008-02-07 15:33 ` Jon Harrop
2008-02-07 16:25   ` David Teller
2008-02-07 23:10 ` David Teller
2008-02-10 18:47 ` Yaron Minsky
2008-02-10 22:05   ` David Teller
2008-02-11  2:16     ` Yaron Minsky
2008-02-11  8:45       ` David Teller
2008-02-11 12:12         ` Yaron Minsky
2008-02-11 12:53           ` David Teller
2008-02-11 23:09             ` Yaron Minsky

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