Re: [Caml-list] Importing specific names

["José Romildo Malaquias" <j.romildo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 03:55:43PM +0200, Matthieu Dubuget wrote:
> Le 26/10/2012 13:26, José Romildo Malaquias a écrit :
> >  Hello.
> >
> >  It seems that the expression ocaml "open module-path" exposes all names
> >  exported by module-path.
> >
> >  Is there any way of exposing only a restrict set of names from a
> >  module-path, instead of all names?
> 
> Is this what you are looking for?
> 
> # module type RS = sig
>     val length : string -> int
>    end;;
> module type RS = sig val length : string -> int end
> # module ReducedString:RS = String;;
> module ReducedString : RS
> # ReducedString.length "coco";;
> - : int = 4
> # ReducedString.uppercase "coco";;
> Error: Unbound value ReducedString.uppercase

This has the disadvantage to explicitly include the type signature of
values, and probably the type definition of types. There sould be easier
ways, where only the relevant names would have to be mentioned.

Romildo