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From: "Jérémie Dimino" <jeremie@dimino.org>
To: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: "OCaml List" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Private types
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:47:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpx14uxw.fsf@aurora.crans.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <340C8DB35D244173AE527238DB359A19@countertenor> (David Allsopp's message of "Thu\, 30 Oct 2008 21\:18\:31 +0100")

"David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com> writes:

> I thought that the point of private types was that you could
> deconstruct them... so values of type M.t are valid wherever an int
> is used but not the converse.

It should probably be ok for immutable data but not for mutable
ones. One example is using String.set on a private string.

Jérémie


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 20:18 David Allsopp
2008-10-30 20:33 ` [Caml-list] " Daniel Bünzli
2008-10-30 21:54   ` David Allsopp
2008-10-31  0:08     ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-10-31 14:05       ` Dario Teixeira
2008-11-01  9:52         ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-11-01  1:52       ` Edgar Friendly
2008-11-01  8:19         ` David Allsopp
2008-11-01 19:31           ` Edgar Friendly
2008-11-01 20:18             ` David Allsopp
2008-11-02 14:53               ` Edgar Friendly
2008-11-01 10:00         ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-11-01 19:41           ` Edgar Friendly
2008-11-01 13:01         ` Rémi Vanicat
2008-11-01 13:30           ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2008-10-30 21:47 ` Jérémie Dimino [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-01 19:51 [Caml-list] Reading a large text file Alain.Frisch
2004-05-01 20:40 ` skaller
2004-05-01 21:11   ` [Caml-list] Private types skaller

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