From: David Brown <caml-list2@davidb.org>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, Christian Lindig <lindig@cs.uni-sb.de>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: warning on value shadowing
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:13:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DCC3FF.9040805@davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DCC1E8.3050807@gnu.org>
Sam Steingold wrote:
>> The problem with this as a warning, is that outside of multiple
>> modules, this scenario is fairly common:
>>
>> let x = ...
>> let x = ... x ...
>>
> 3 shadow a global value with a local one (warning)
> 4 redefine a local value as in your example (no warning)
I guess my example was a little ambiguous. Those were meant to be
top-level bindings. I've seen this construct fairly commonly. It is
especially useful when making something that wraps around another
call, adding a bit more functionality.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 20:41 Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 20:57 ` [Caml-list] " Christian Lindig
2007-02-21 21:10 ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 21:51 ` David Brown
2007-02-21 22:04 ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 22:13 ` David Brown [this message]
2007-02-21 23:15 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-02-21 22:25 ` Jon Harrop
2007-02-23 20:40 ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-22 0:54 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-02-22 1:09 ` David Brown
2007-02-23 15:12 ` Wolfgang Lux
2007-02-23 20:51 ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-24 3:31 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-02-25 0:23 ` Sam Steingold
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