Actually, I was looking for a way to specialize a whole module,
not just the associated type (**this** I knew how to do).
I would like to write something like:

     include module type of Set.Make(String) with 'a= int

Is this possible?

Yours,
Jacky Potop




On 20/09/2010 16:57, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> module M = Map.Make(String)
>
> type t = int M.t
>
> Type t is the type of maps from string's to int's. Or alternatively write a
> function that assumes 'a is some specific type:
>
> # let f m = M.fold (fun _ x y ->  x + y) m 0;;
> val f : int M.t ->  int =<fun>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Dumitru Potop-Butucaru<
> dumitru.potop_butucaru@inria.fr>  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm certain most users here will consider the question trivially simple,
>> but I browsed the documentation without finding a solution.
>>
>> The question is quite general: Given a polymorphic definition like
>> Map.Make(X), where
>> X is some module, how can I specialize its 'a type parameter, e.g. by
>> setting it to Y, so that
>> I have maps from X to Y ?
>>
>> Yours,
>> Jacky Potop
>>
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