caml-list - the Caml user's mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dawid Toton <d0@wp.pl>
To: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Extending Set - strange behavior of abstract type
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:31:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD6A0D9.7070900@wp.pl> (raw)

I tried to extend the standard Set module with new operations. I got 
error messages about type incompatibilities (the Set.S.t as exposed by 
my implementation and Set.S.t used by functions from the original Set). 
I have reduced my code to the following small example:

module Set = struct
   module Make (Ord : Set.OrderedType) = struct
     module Set = Set.Make(Ord)
     include Set
   end
end

module OrdChar = struct type t = char let compare = compare end
module Raw1 = Set.Make (OrdChar)
module Raw2 = Set.Make (struct type t = char let compare = compare end)

let aaa (aa : Raw1.t) (bb : Raw1.Set.t) = (aa = bb)
let aaa (aa : Raw2.t) (bb : Raw2.Set.t) = (aa = bb)

Only the last line results in an error:
Error: This expression has type Raw2.Set.t but is here used with type Raw2.t

All the rest of the code compiles correctly. It means that types Raw1.t 
and Raw1.Set.t can be unified.

My question is: why these nearly identical statements results in 
different behavior of the type t?

I'd really prefer Raw1 and Raw2 to be identical.
I use ocaml 3.11.0.

Dawid


             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-27  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-27  8:31 Dawid Toton [this message]
2010-04-27  8:55 ` [Caml-list] " rossberg
2010-04-27 14:40 ` Sylvain Le Gall

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4BD6A0D9.7070900@wp.pl \
    --to=d0@wp.pl \
    --cc=caml-list@yquem.inria.fr \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).