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From: Oleg <oleg@okmij.org>
To: zhenya1007@gmail.com
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A question about "8.9 First-class modules -> Advanced
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:56:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171227075637.GA999@Magus.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGYXaSb5mXa33R7RccEeqh8aYEgow8OtG9VctVOono6x0hgW1Q@mail.gmail.com>


> I appreciate that it may be, "possible to parametrize some code over the
> implementation of a module without using a functor", but I am having
> trouble imagining why one would want to do such a thing.  

Here is an example why one may want to do such thing
        http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/nondet-effect.html#no-functor

In fact, tagless-final approach lends itself very well to first-class
modules.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-27  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-22  9:13 [Caml-list] A question about "8.9 First-class modules -> Advanced examples" section of the reference manual Evgeny Roubinchtein
2017-12-27  7:56 ` Oleg [this message]
2018-01-03 10:22 ` Nicolás Ojeda Bär
2018-01-03 10:47   ` Xavier Leroy
2018-01-03 14:43     ` Nicolás Ojeda Bär
2018-01-04 16:50 ` Hao Wu

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