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From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@mpi-sws.org>
To: Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch>
Cc: Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com>, caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: module typing issue
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:59:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B666E2-4575-4E79-ACF1-FE0789C0C76B@mpi-sws.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110325164240.GT10028@localhost>

On Mar 25, 2011, at 17.42 h, Guillaume Yziquel wrote:
> Le Friday 25 Mar 2011 à 16:46:47 (+0100), Andreas Rossberg a écrit :
>> I don't think it ever makes sense to define private type
>> abbreviations in a structure - they are intended for use in
>> signatures. Just drop the private from your example.
>
> Uuh... It does make some sense, sometimes: In bindings, as output of
> external stubs, and as phantom type arguments for instance... 'ever'  
> is
> somewhat too restrictive.

Well, fully abstract type definitions are sometimes handy for these  
purposes. But how do private type abbreviations help there?

/Andreas



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-25  8:34 [Caml-list] " Joel Reymont
2011-03-25  8:44 ` [Caml-list] " Joel Reymont
2011-03-25 14:17   ` Joel Reymont
2011-03-25 15:46     ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-03-25 15:57       ` Joel Reymont
2011-03-25 16:04         ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-03-25 16:42       ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-25 16:59         ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2011-03-25 19:01           ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-25 19:13             ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-03-28  7:53             ` Alain Frisch
2011-03-28 10:33               ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-28 11:29                 ` David Allsopp
2011-03-28 11:58                   ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-28 12:11                     ` David Allsopp
2011-03-28 12:29                       ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-28 12:23                     ` Alain Frisch
2011-03-28 12:39                       ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-28 11:32               ` David Allsopp
2011-03-28 12:02                 ` Guillaume Yziquel

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