From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Private type syntax and error message
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:04:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809121604.56179.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1221226999.5024.7.camel@asus.localdomain>
On Friday 12 September 2008 14:43:19 Colonna Francois wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if, as I found in the documentation, I write :
>
> # type my_int = private int;;
Where does that appear in the documentation? Google returns zero hits...
> I get the message : "This fixed type is not an object or variant"
>
> 1. The message is very obscure
How would you write it more clearly?
> 2. why this syntax is not implemented as it should be ?
What do you expect it to do that might work? If it created an abstract type
the type would be useless, having no way to construct or destructure values
of that type...
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-12 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-12 13:43 Colonna Francois
2008-09-12 15:01 ` [Caml-list] " Colonna Francois
2008-09-12 15:04 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-09-12 14:19 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-09-12 14:37 ` Virgile Prevosto
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