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From: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why should I use .mli files?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:06:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508FFB12.9030307@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508FE869.3070603@inria.fr>

On 10/30/2012 10:47 AM, Romain Bardou wrote:
> Maybe ocaml should provide something like:
>
> include type t in sig
>
Is there any case where type declarations in the .mli file should not be 
included as part of the .ml file?
> Which would mean "copy-paste the definition of t from the .mli".
>
Why not have this be the default?  i.e. when compiling a .ml file, if 
the corresponding .mli file exists, its type declarations are in scope 
for the .ml file, and its value declarations are applied to the 
corresponding values in the .ml file.  The only edge case I can think of 
is when an identifier is bound multiple times in the .ml file, the type 
from the .mli file currently only applies to the last binding, whereas 
with this strategy, the type would most easily be implemented as 
applying to all bindings of that identifier.

E.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-30 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-30  0:43 Francois Berenger
2012-10-30  1:04 ` Peter Groves
2012-10-30  2:21   ` Francois Berenger
2012-10-30  1:15 ` malc
2012-10-30  2:24   ` Francois Berenger
2012-10-30 10:23     ` malc
2012-10-30  1:19 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-10-30  2:36   ` Francois Berenger
2012-10-30  3:26     ` Anthony Tavener
2012-10-30 12:28     ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-10-31  0:53       ` Francois Berenger
2012-10-30  2:21 ` gallais @ ensl.org
2012-10-30  6:12 ` Anton Lavrik
2012-10-30  9:18   ` Francois Berenger
2012-10-30 10:01     ` Malcolm Matalka
2012-10-30 11:03     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2012-10-30 11:41     ` [Caml-list] " Hongbo Zhang
2012-10-30 13:31       ` Romain Bardou
2012-10-31  1:03         ` Francois Berenger
2012-10-31  1:44           ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-10-31  9:51             ` Oliver Bandel
2012-10-30 14:32   ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2012-10-30 14:45     ` Anton Lavrik
2012-10-30 14:49       ` Oliver Bandel
2012-10-30 14:51       ` Didier Cassirame
2012-10-30 14:47     ` Romain Bardou
2012-10-30 16:06       ` Edgar Friendly [this message]
2012-10-30 16:21         ` Romain Bardou
2012-10-30 16:46           ` Edgar Friendly
2012-10-30 21:25             ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-10-30 22:18               ` Oliver Bandel
2012-10-31  9:25                 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-10-31  9:59                   ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-10-31 13:22                     ` Edgar Friendly
2012-10-31 13:38                       ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-10-31 13:55                         ` Edgar Friendly
2012-10-31 13:43                       ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-11-01  0:38                         ` Francois Berenger
2012-11-01  0:42                           ` Edgar Friendly
2012-11-01  0:52                             ` Francois Berenger
2012-11-01  2:06                               ` Edgar Friendly
2012-11-01  2:37                                 ` Francois Berenger
2012-11-01  2:44                                 ` Jacques Garrigue
2012-11-01  7:45                                   ` Andreas Rossberg
2012-10-31 10:20               ` Alain Frisch
2012-10-31 13:50               ` Edgar Friendly
2012-10-31 15:12                 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-10-31 16:48                   ` Edgar Friendly
2012-10-31 17:15                     ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-10-31 19:05                       ` Tiphaine Turpin
2012-10-30  7:43 ` Mike Lin
2012-10-30 15:52 ` Didier Cassirame
2012-10-30 15:56   ` Romain Bardou
2012-10-30 16:14     ` Didier Cassirame
2012-10-31 21:30   ` Oliver Bandel
2012-11-01 15:26     ` Didier Cassirame
2012-10-31 15:32 ` Alain Frisch
2012-10-31 17:32   ` Tiphaine Turpin
2012-10-31 21:40     ` Oliver Bandel
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2012-10-31 14:32 ` Radu Grigore
     [not found] ` <fa.pEEaqh4bLDLiRdYkCRHvi9787TQ@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.JtZOlOTbNCp6rOoRnHhKEARwLDQ@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]     ` <fa.s4gDOdOTZVbthjceZ5OEMxHiH90@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]       ` <fa.rfsHI3X48Zri1S2pu1SEFowmDZg@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]         ` <fa.KulHINoVpgjN1uI63QvwcxoNuiY@ifi.uio.no>
2012-11-01 11:38           ` Radu Grigore

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