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From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: Julien Signoles <julien.signoles@gmail.com>
Cc: Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>,
	Michael.Grunewald@laposte.net, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Private modules in packages
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 20:04:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eih5rv0x.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimLJ0019okoIYQUATRZP2dxihtG8CzgptM0qQHv@mail.gmail.com> (Julien Signoles's message of "Fri, 21 May 2010 17:42:30 +0200")

Julien Signoles <julien.signoles@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> 2010/5/21 Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>
>
>     > write a script to generate the P.mli file
>
>     Why do you need Bar.mli and Foo.mli at all? Just write the P.mli only.
>
>
> If your pack is big, you may want to mask internals of Bar and Foo to others
> modules of the pack. Actually, values exported in Bar/Foo but not in P exactly
> are the module counterparts of "friend methods" in OO languages.

But then, if you have methods in Bar and Foo visible inside the pack but
not from outside, you can't just cat Bar.mli and Foo.mli into
P.mli. You need to process it to remove the 'friends' functions.

Doesn't batteries have some script for this?

MfG
        Goswin


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21  8:32 Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2010-05-21  8:51 ` [Caml-list] " Michaël Grünewald
2010-05-21  8:53 ` Julien Signoles
2010-05-21  9:51   ` Hans Ole Rafaelsen
2010-05-21 13:54     ` Ashish Agarwal
2010-05-21 15:42       ` Julien Signoles
2010-05-21 18:04         ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2010-05-21 19:52           ` Julien Signoles

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