Re: [Caml-list] Style question

[Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de>]

Brian Rogoff wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that all of the uses of local in SML can be handled can be
> handled by the module system in OCaml, and I don't even find the unsugared
> forms to be bad at all.

It is not exactly sugar since you can express things with local that you
cannot with signatures - but all of them are pretty useless. My personal
opinion is that using modules is preferable even in SML, its local being
an anachronism from the pre-module days, just like abstype. I almost
never use it. It only comes in handy in conjunction with open:

	local open M in
	...
	end

Of course, in OCaml this is solved by having open vs. include.

	- Andreas

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