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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
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On Tuesday 18 November 2008 10:06:25 Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:56:18AM +0100, David Teller wrote:
> >  open System.IO;;
> >  open System.File;;
>
> Your biggest problem is using dot ('.') instead of underscore ('_').
> Using a dot means that the System namespace cannot be extended by
> external packages.  If you use an underscore then an external package
> can extend the namespace (eg. by providing System_Newpackage)

I don't follow. Can you not use "include" to extend an existing module:

# module Array = struct
    include Array
    let empty = [||]
  end;;
module Array :
  sig
    external length : 'a array -> int = "%array_length"
    ...
    val empty : 'a array
  end

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