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From: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>
To: Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Hawkins <hawkinsp@cs.stanford.edu>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Extending modules and signatures
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:20:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E9E195.6030603@ens-lyon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8be5ae20904172247r4a0e9a7blc8a01b8343af74c0@mail.gmail.com>

Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> This is a commonly requested feature.

Ah.

> One issue is that a file a.ml
> <http://a.ml> creates a module A. However, a file a.mli does not create
> a module type A. I'm not sure why this is the case. Does anyone know if
> there is a specific reason?

The module type exists, it's just that it doesn't have a name.

  let x = (123, "abc")

does not define "type x = int * string" either.



Martin

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-18 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-17 20:51 Peter Hawkins
2009-04-17 21:36 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-18  5:47 ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-04-18 14:20   ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2009-04-19 21:36     ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-04-19 21:53       ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-20  5:17         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-20  0:06       ` Martin Jambon
2009-04-20  5:23         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-20 11:55           ` Martin Jambon
2009-04-21 16:01         ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-04-17 21:30 Dario Teixeira

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