[Caml-list] Re: Legality of using module types from .mli in .ml

[Julien Signoles <Julien.Signoles@lri.fr>]

Thorsten Ohl wrote:
> 
> I'm often referring to module types defined in an interface file in
> order to reduce redundancy.  For example
> 
>     $ cat a.mli
>     module type T = sig val n : int end
>     module M : T
> 
>     $ cat a.ml
>     module type T = A.T
>     module M : T = struct let n = 42 end
> 
> where T can be rather long.  Is this legal?

For me, your module type declaration should be illegal in a.ml. But the
ocaml compiler accepts it... 
So, is it an ocaml bug ? Orelse what is the exact semantic of (.mli,
.ml) ?
 
> The reason I'm asking this, is that my shorthand [as in (a.mli, aml)]
> breaks Julien Signoles' defunctorizer.

The previous example doesn't break my defunctorizer :

	$ ocamldefun --version
	1.02
	$ ocamldefun a.mli a.ml
	$ cat a.ml
	module type T = A.T
	module M = struct let n = 42 end

That's ok (normal because a.mli is still in the ocamldefun environment
when a.ml is defunctorized)...
Can you report me your example breaking my defunctorizer ?

Cheers,
Julien Signoles.

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