Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Exceptionless error management, take 2

[tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez)]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:52:18AM +0100, rlehy@free.fr wrote:
> Could you please expand on this "pollution" and the *practical* problems it
> causes? I can see the risk of my own identifiers clashing with those of a
> library, and that finding documentation when the namespace is flat is harder.
> But none of these seem applicable for polymorphic variants, so I feel like I'm
> missing something.

For example, an `Error returned by module X could be use in a code
expecting an `Error returned by module Y, even though that the `Error
could means something totally different (semanticly).  If I use normal
variant, the compiler will prevent me using the same code to match a
X.Error and a Y.Error.

And don't get me wrong, i'm not saying polymorphic variant should never be use,
it has its limited use (when people knows exactly what they are doing),
but usually i prefer keeping this safety net , and like that the
compiler tells me i can't use a Y.Error like a X.Error.

-- 
Vincent Hanquez