Re: [Caml-list] Improving OCaml's choice of type to display

[Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Alp Mestan <alp@mestan.fr> wrote:

> Can't there be a trick by playing with, e.g, ocamlmktop, which could open
> Core and its main submodules by default, like it's done with Pervasives and,
> IIRC, Batteries ?
>

Maybe.  Although to be honest my main concern is not with the top-level, but
rather with the errors given out by ocamlc, and the type-inference hints
given by the -dtypes flag.  The naming choices are easiest to see in the
toplevel, but they show up all over the place.

y


> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, if we're picking heuristics, the fewest number of characters
>> wouldn't be crazy either.  Given the choice between Int.t and Int.comparable
>> (which are aliases for the same type), I'd prefer to see Int.t.
>>
>> y
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Choosing shorter names.
>>>
>>> By which you probably mean "the fewest number of dots (module
>>> projections)". It might be a bit annoying if the code that prints
>>> doesn't know what modules are open. What do the INRIA priests say?
>>>
>>> Andrej
>>>
>>
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