From: luc.maranget@inria.fr (Luc Maranget)
To: Luca Pascali <pasckosky2000@yahoo.it>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] exception Failure and failwith
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:34:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050621113440.GA3794@yquem.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42B7F6E2.3010508@yahoo.it>
> It's what I was afraid of.
> I got it. Anyway let me make a consideration: It would be nice to have a
> way (a fake module named Core,for example) to access the core types,
> exception and definitions in case someone shadows the original one.
Why not, but frankly, I am not sure this can be done easily. Besides,
this would potentially break user code, for users who happen to have a
module named 'Core'.
>
> exception Prim_Failure = Failure
>
> to get rid of any further shadowing.
Good point which I missed.
As a conclusion, it is clear that the management of the so-called
'built-ins' is somehow unfortunate, and that perhaps, not all built-ins,
need to be so.
However the behavior is properly documented and workarounds are available.
Luc Maranget
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-21 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-21 8:34 Luca Pascali
2005-06-21 9:07 ` [Caml-list] " Luc Maranget
2005-06-21 11:15 ` Luca Pascali
2005-06-21 11:34 ` Luc Maranget [this message]
2005-06-21 18:23 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-06-21 18:55 ` William Lovas
2005-06-23 8:04 ` Luca Pascali
2005-06-21 9:30 ` Julien Signoles
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