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From: Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr>
To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu (Yaron M. Minsky)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax of private constructors in CVS version
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:05:29 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307011705.TAA21900@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1057056689.3405.15.camel@dragonfly.localdomain> from "Yaron M. Minsky" at "Jul 1, 103 06:51:29 am"

> Would it be fair to say that the main distinction between private types
> and abstract types is that with private types, constructors are only
> invocable from inside the module, but destructors (e.g., pattern
> matching) are available both inside and outside of the module?
> 
> y
> -- 
> |--------/            Yaron M. Minsky              \--------|
> |--------\ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/yminsky/ /--------|

You are right: that's yet another way to say it :)

Pierre Weis

INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-01 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-27 20:50 Shaddin Doghmi
2003-06-27 21:15 ` brogoff
2003-06-27 22:10   ` Shaddin Doghmi
2003-06-28  2:24     ` brogoff
2003-06-30 18:39       ` Pierre Weis
2003-06-30 19:00         ` Chris Hecker
2003-06-30 21:36           ` brogoff
2003-07-01 10:47           ` Pierre Weis
2003-07-01  7:43         ` Hendrik Tews
2003-07-01 10:37         ` Yaron M. Minsky
2003-07-01 10:51         ` Yaron M. Minsky
2003-07-01 17:05           ` Pierre Weis [this message]
2003-07-01 17:20             ` brogoff
2003-07-03 11:46         ` John Max Skaller
2003-07-07 22:31           ` Pierre Weis
2003-07-13  9:11             ` John Max Skaller
2003-07-15  8:02               ` Laurent Vibert
2003-07-15  8:22                 ` Pierre Weis

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