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From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: module typing issue
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:53:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D903E90.4080907@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110325190129.GU10028@localhost>

On 03/25/2011 08:01 PM, Guillaume Yziquel wrote:
> type error = private int
>
> external get_error : unit ->  error = "zzz"
>
> You get some error level that you can pattern match as an int, and this
> also enforces that all values of type error come from a call to
> get_error.

You need to coerce explicitly from type error to type int (... :> int), 
so this is not really different from defining error as an abstract type 
and exposing a function error->int.

-- Alain

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-28  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-25  8:34 [Caml-list] " Joel Reymont
2011-03-25  8:44 ` [Caml-list] " Joel Reymont
2011-03-25 14:17   ` Joel Reymont
2011-03-25 15:46     ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-03-25 15:57       ` Joel Reymont
2011-03-25 16:04         ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-03-25 16:42       ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-25 16:59         ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-03-25 19:01           ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-25 19:13             ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-03-28  7:53             ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2011-03-28 10:33               ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-28 11:29                 ` David Allsopp
2011-03-28 11:58                   ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-28 12:11                     ` David Allsopp
2011-03-28 12:29                       ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-28 12:23                     ` Alain Frisch
2011-03-28 12:39                       ` Guillaume Yziquel
2011-03-28 11:32               ` David Allsopp
2011-03-28 12:02                 ` Guillaume Yziquel

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