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From: Christian Lindig <lindig@cs.uni-sb.de>
To: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] warning on value shadowing
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:57:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97C89459-B045-4700-8333-FAE31EC648E0@cs.uni-sb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DCAE89.1050904@gnu.org>


On Feb 21, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:

> Proposal:
> When both foo.ml and bar.ml define zot and quux.ml opens both Foo  
> and Bar, there should be a warning [..]

While I see your concern I think open is best avoided. To still enjoy  
the convenience of  short names, consider writing this in quux.ml:

module F = Foo
module B = Bar

	F.zot ... B.zot

Voilà, no name clashes or shadowing.

-- Christian


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-21 20:41 Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 20:57 ` Christian Lindig [this message]
2007-02-21 21:10   ` [Caml-list] " Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 21:51     ` David Brown
2007-02-21 22:04       ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 22:13         ` [Caml-list] " David Brown
2007-02-21 23:15       ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-02-21 22:25 ` Jon Harrop
2007-02-23 20:40   ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-22  0:54 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-02-22  1:09   ` David Brown
2007-02-23 15:12     ` Wolfgang Lux
2007-02-23 20:51   ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-24  3:31     ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-02-25  0:23       ` Sam Steingold
     [not found] <20070221223151.97901BC76@yquem.inria.fr>
2007-02-21 22:56 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2007-02-21 23:20   ` skaller
2007-02-22  0:19   ` Jon Harrop

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