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From: Francois Pottier <Francois.Pottier@inria.fr>
To: Pascal Brisset <brisset@recherche.enac.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] renaming a type
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:12:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010914081252.A28439@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15hWun-0008Kr-00@mauve.recherche.enac.fr>; from brisset@recherche.enac.fr on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:52:25PM +0200


>  Unfortunately it does not work is I instantiate a polymorphic type with the
> same idea:
> 
> # module M = struct type 'a t = T end;;
> module M : sig type 'a t = T end
> # type t' = int M.t = T;;
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Why not do it in two steps?

# module M = struct type 'a t = T end;;
module M : sig type 'a t = T end
# type 'a t' = 'a M.t = T;;
type 'a t' = 'a M.t = T
# type t'' = int t';;
type t'' = int t'

Clearly very clumsy, of course, but it works.

-- 
François Pottier
Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-09-14  6:12 UTC|newest]

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2001-09-13 13:52 Pascal Brisset
2001-09-14  6:12 ` Francois Pottier [this message]

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