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From: David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>
To: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Hiding a public module/type?
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:35:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225748157.6328.105.camel@Blefuscu> (raw)

     Dear list,

 In order to simplify the error messages for users of my library, I'd
like to hide some type aliasing.

I have the following:

(*** module [Inner], defined in inner.mli ***)
type t


(*** module [Outer], defined in outer.mli ***)
type t = Inner.t
val f : t -> t


Now, module [Inner] is only useful to define the library and shouldn't
be visible from the outside. Unfortunately, for the moment, whenever a
client makes a type error involving [f], the error message looks like

# f 5;;
        ^
This expression has type int but is used with type
 Outer.t = Inner.t

Is there a simple way of turning this error message into

This expression has type int but is used with type
 Outer.t
?


Thanks,
 David

-- 
David Teller-Rajchenbach
 Security of Distributed Systems
  http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller
 Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act
brings liquidations. 


             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-03 21:35 David Teller [this message]
2008-11-03 23:38 ` [Caml-list] " Martin Jambon
2008-11-10 14:04   ` David Teller

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