From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
To: ecc@cmu.edu
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] referencing the signature inferred from a .mli file?
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 08:51:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030908085155I.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030907164121.GA15853@ecooper.com>
From: "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>
> Suppose I extend an existing module, like the standard List module,
> with some new functions:
>
[...]
>
> As far as I can tell, I can't write a list_extensions.mli file without
> textually including the standard List .mli file, which isn't very good
> software engineering practice.
I'm not sure of what is good (or bad) software engineering.
However I'm convinced that this is a real pain.
I had a simple proposal: a .mli file would not only be used as a
constraint for the corresponding .ml file, but would also define
a signature of the same name.
Then you could simply write
sig include List ... end
But it has not been accepted yet...
Jacques Garrigue
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-07 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-07 16:41 Eric C. Cooper
2003-09-07 23:51 ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]
2003-09-08 7:50 ` Markus Mottl
2003-09-08 9:25 ` Jean-Baptiste Rouquier
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