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From: "David Baelde" <david.baelde@gmail.com>
To: "Caml Mailing List" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler: Modulesor classes?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:48:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53c655920702240348s756a662fv12c1f53c972ed67e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172285488.23720.53.camel@rosella.wigram>

On 2/24/07, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> It seems like a module functor allows both anonymous
> signatures (structural) and also anonymous argument
> modules (structural), yet you cannot have
> anonymous functor applications: you have to bind the application to
> a module name. If we really had structural typing that name would
> simply be an alias. Why can't we eliminate that name? ***

One worthy remark here might be that side-effects can occur at functor
instantiation. Then, forcing the user to think about when the
instantiation occurs is useful...

--David


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-24 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-22 14:38 Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler: Modules or classes? Joel Reymont
2007-02-22 17:21 ` [Caml-list] " Tom
2007-02-22 17:38 ` Xavier Leroy
2007-02-22 19:55 ` Chris King
2007-02-22 19:59 ` Markus Mottl
2007-02-23 16:13 ` brogoff
2007-02-23 18:14   ` Tom
2007-02-23 19:28     ` [Caml-list] Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler: Modulesor classes? Andreas Rossberg
2007-02-24  2:51       ` skaller
2007-02-24 11:48         ` David Baelde [this message]
     [not found]           ` <4a708d20702240518l2c430b06r18fe64cabe5cbe9@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-24 13:33             ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2007-02-24 14:58         ` [Caml-list] Instruction selection in the OCaml compiler:Modulesor classes? Andreas Rossberg
2007-02-24 17:39           ` skaller

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