From: Manuel Fahndrich <maf@microsoft.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: Undefined labels
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:06:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <783D93998201D311B0CF00805FEAA07B7E8FE5@RED-MSG-42> (raw)
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This is the standard example for why we need a local open in the language.
-Manuel
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian RINDERKNECHT [mailto:rinderkn@hugo.int-evry.fr]
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 8:48 AM
To: caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Undefined labels
Hello,
> (Unix.fstat argument).st_kind
>
> Here, the function returns a structure, st_kind
> is a label of that structure, but it is not known
> in the calling module. Is there a syntax for this?
Yes:
(Unix.fstat argument).Unix.st_kind
^^^^
because the compiler doesn't know in what module to look-up for label
[st_kind].
> Using 'open Unix' is unacceptable.
I also never use the "open" feature, but the consequence is, when using
nested records, I must qualify all the labels (as in your example),
and the code becomes unreadable.
I recently started using classes in order to avoid this practical
problem, since methods are in the scope of their object, not of the
module embedding their class.
But this doesn't work if the library you are using is not
object-oriented, of course:)
Best regards,
--
Christian
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next reply other threads:[~1999-11-15 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-12 17:06 Manuel Fahndrich [this message]
1999-11-16 0:30 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-19 14:35 ` Anton Moscal
1999-11-17 9:54 ` Gerard Huet
1999-11-18 20:08 ` David Brown
1999-11-19 16:18 ` Markus Mottl
1999-11-20 23:49 ` Packages? skaller
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1999-10-14 0:58 Announcement: automatically resizing arrays Markus Mottl
1999-11-11 11:39 ` Undefined labels skaller
1999-11-12 9:28 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
1999-11-12 23:01 ` skaller
1999-11-12 9:54 ` William Chesters
1999-11-12 12:47 ` Christian RINDERKNECHT
1999-11-12 17:11 ` Jean-Francois Monin
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