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From: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
To: Roland Zumkeller <roland.zumkeller@gmail.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Explicitly referring to top-level definitions
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:45:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B3E81C.60404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d02dcb040903071210x5f3cb7d6g7c8ab2742d58e911@mail.gmail.com>

Roland Zumkeller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to qualify identifiers explicitly so as to make them
> refer to top-level definitions?
> 
> # type t = int;;
> type t = int
> # module A = struct type t = t end;;
> The type abbreviation t is cyclic
> 
> Is it possible to write something like "type t = Top.t"?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Roland

In the case I've had to do this, I just created an alias for the
top-level definition. ex.

# type t = int;;
# type t_alias = t;;
# module A = struct type t = t_alias end;;

E


      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-08 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-07 20:10 Roland Zumkeller
2009-03-08 15:45 ` Edgar Friendly [this message]

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