From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_POST, SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17377BBAF for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:14:12 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlwDAEcaz0rRVdPGi2dsb2JhbACaRz8BAQEKCwoHEbALhmyIaAEDAwWEJwSIXg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,533,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="37939561" Received: from mail-yw0-f198.google.com ([209.85.211.198]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 09 Oct 2009 20:14:11 +0200 Received: by ywh36 with SMTP id 36so7366337ywh.15 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=WkU+DyBOYk4oQLaIhrM2us9dlHw7hCyJ1Tz2yJhI3E4=; b=QLgli3mGPze4FmaV3rb3hXoD3JgoO3VPw2mo3HZU0+SayrRLuYVenv/nWx6P4nTWLw 1eHNjyZwBK001VONIMQJFJgojWtwRXTi1ihOWzAhG5+y39srnyDQhaKASKl4b0A+s5z8 Mfj4JSnPPe5fpOD7JOoBdQj5+5vK8CEPz/UQU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=IDDgvplak+PS/lYFmKlwOO3IYzJU7AWUil0wnxtDjt4kAWqT+Kp1Qd9CoqTL+aMtxZ lMzPbWcLBwd1Jmb+VL07JElKlZRf6wNxQizTkw0DdnjVVUUOlmGLxM99/equaan8Naq1 ZKwsISj9eE+owENI8sWXtMLAGMHwtOKWaTjKc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: stephentweeks@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.248.4 with SMTP id v4mr5238062ybh.184.1255112050617; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7d8707de0910090033q4a14a108w62f13d7735994923@mail.gmail.com> References: <891bd3390910081840p37e8c786g60b2c15d2c06ae60@mail.gmail.com> <7d8707de0910090033q4a14a108w62f13d7735994923@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:14:10 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8926a74692a2a0a1 Message-ID: <604682010910091114h665b470aw7d5427fab6c72467@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Improving OCaml's choice of type to display From: Stephen Weeks To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml's:01 andrej:01 andrej:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 2009:98 2009:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 typechecking:01 caml-list:01 module:03 dots:04 shorter:04 On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Andrej Bauer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Yaron Minsky wrote: >> Choosing shorter names. > > By which you probably mean "the fewest number of dots (module > projections)". That is the rule we used in MLton, breaking ties by most-recently-defined. It worked quite well in practice. See http://mlton.org/TypeChecking