From: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
To: bluestorm <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com>
Cc: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>,
Till Varoquaux <till@pps.jussieu.fr>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why is this allowed?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:31:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0FB3D1.4020103@mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimWZQI412cICMhJqkzdTG3W8rBqE5qLVNs3lbAP@mail.gmail.com>
bluestorm wrote:
> It is actually not the case that type structure items can be shadowed :
>
> # module A = struct type t = int;; type t = int end;;
> Error: Multiple definition of the type name t.
> Names must be unique in a given structure or signature.
>
Exactly. My desired would be for this non-shadowing restriction to be
extended to all types, not just type structure items.
Shadowing at the value level is an entirely different issue, and is
perfectly fine as it is.
Jacques
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-09 15:32 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
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 [this message]
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