From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id DAA15160; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 03:59:06 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA15107 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 03:59:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g571x3123292 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 03:59:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA27803 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 21:59:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA26521 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 21:59:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psrg.lcs.mit.edu (BLUEBOX-262.MIT.EDU [18.162.2.79]) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA10480 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 21:59:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D001477.4080605@psrg.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 22:03:35 -0400 From: "John D. Barnett" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] unique record types Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk The ocaml documentation mentions that field names in a record must be unique (within a module), although the ocaml book mentions an experimental language feature to get around this, that seems no longer available. My question is, why is this so? Can anyone recommend a paper explaining difficulties/solutions to implementing record types in the ML-style type system? Thanks, -John ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners