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From: Vincent Aravantinos <vincent.aravantinos@gmail.com>
To: rossberg@mpi-sws.org
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, Cedric Cellier <rixed@happyleptic.org>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Include question
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:08:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBAB39D.80601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4e01c9eda746094578f79153cdff95b.squirrel@mail.mpi-sws.org>



On 11/09/2011 11:29 AM, rossberg@mpi-sws.org wrote:
> Vincent Aravantinos wrote:
>> This verbosity problem is actually less true since 3.12 with the
>> introduction of "module type of":
>>
>> module A = struct
>>     ...
>> end
>>
>> module Make_B (X: module type of A) = struct
>>     ...
>> end
>>
>> Which is then quite close to the "include" version.
> Except that it defeats the whole point of functorizing, because you won't be
> able to plug in another module than A anymore (unless A defines no abstract
> types, in which case you can get away with it).

Indeed. Stupid idea...

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-08 15:03 Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2011-11-08 15:10 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-11-08 15:45   ` Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2011-11-08 15:50     ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2011-11-08 15:49   ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2011-11-09  7:29     ` Cedric Cellier
2011-11-09 15:41       ` Vincent Aravantinos
2011-11-09 15:50         ` Vincent Aravantinos
2011-11-09 16:29           ` rossberg
2011-11-09 17:08             ` Vincent Aravantinos [this message]
2011-11-09 23:36             ` Jacques Garrigue
2011-11-10 12:08               ` rossberg

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