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From: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
To: Lukasz Stafiniak <lukstafi@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why is this allowed?
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 11:48:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C03DA6B.2030807@mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilj8FHBNyV6dkyRakvhXR_IqLBZOPXbE946CtvK@mail.gmail.com>

Lukasz Stafiniak wrote:
> But what when someone includes or opens a module with Foo after "type
> foo = Foo"? What when someone opens it locally in an expression?
>   
I would be fine if type-level shadowing was disallowed for all those cases.

> Does a variant value have a unique type with a unique path so that it
> would be possible to guarantee that within this unique path there are
> no type *definitions* that override a variant name?
>   
That would be nice.

Jacques

> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>   
>> type foo = Foo
>> let x = Foo
>>
>> type foo2 = Foo | Bar
>> let y = Foo
>> let z = (x,y) ;;
>>
>> I thought that re-using of algebraic labels was not allowed - but apparently
>> it is?
>>     


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-31 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-31 14:46 Jacques Carette
2010-05-31 15:06 ` [Caml-list] " Lukasz Stafiniak
2010-05-31 15:48   ` Jacques Carette [this message]
2010-05-31 15:43 ` Till Varoquaux
2010-05-31 15:54   ` Jacques Carette
2010-06-09 15:11     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-06-09 15:17       ` bluestorm
2010-06-09 15:31         ` Jacques Carette

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