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From: Mike Lin <mikelin@mit.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] object constructor syntax compiler weirdness
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:14:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a1a1a0c0511210214h111c014k3107f7727e2d0245@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051121.094801.126142370.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

> Parentheses in class definitions are useless, so there is no reason to
> add a begin .. end construct. I suppose that the first syntax is only
> allowed as a degenerated case of
>    class c = (object ... end : ct)

Well, despite the parentheses being useless, I feel this should not be
a syntax error:

class type x = object val y : int end
>> fine
class type x = (object val y : int end)
>> syntax error

since:

module type X = sig val y : int end
>> fine
module type X = (sig val y : int end)
>> fine


      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-21 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-21  8:09 Mike Lin
2005-11-21  8:48 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2005-11-21 10:14   ` Mike Lin [this message]

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