From: Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>
To: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] module alias in a .mli file
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:02:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A9CB66.1020207@ens-lyon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A9C3BB.2050900@riken.jp>
On Sun 18 Nov 2012 09:29:31 PM PST, Francois Berenger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is my stupid question of the day:
> can't I declare the following in a .mli file?
>
> module V3 = Vector3
No, because "= Vector3" specifies an implementation.
An mli file is a module interface, and module interfaces never contain
implementations.
However, you may want to do this, which does what it says:
module V3 : module type of Vector3
("language extension", since ocaml 3.12)
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-19 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-19 5:29 Francois Berenger
2012-11-19 6:02 ` Martin Jambon [this message]
2012-11-19 6:36 ` Francois Berenger
2012-11-19 10:35 ` David House
2012-11-19 12:44 ` Paolo Donadeo
2012-11-19 15:46 ` Tiphaine Turpin
2012-11-19 14:51 ` David House
2012-11-20 1:38 ` Francois Berenger
2012-11-20 1:57 ` Francois Berenger
2012-11-19 6:03 ` Wojciech Meyer
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