From: Jamie Brandon <jamie@scattered-thoughts.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Limitations of first-class modules
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:30:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimmnsC022N=xj-23TtKsHJ9RPdj9wydq68yU5Jm@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D38791B.5070707@lexifi.com>
> There is a branch fstclassmod_parametrized in the SVN which allows more
> kinds of constraints; in particular, it allows constraints on parametrized
> types (module A with type 'a t1 = T1)
...
> This extension does not seem very useful to me in practice (because there is
> no polymorphism on type constructors in OCaml).
I was trying to do exactly that last week:
http://zheng.li/buzzlogs-ocaml/2011/01/13/irc.html
It allows working with abstract collections without using functors,
which is fairly useful.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-19 12:33 Lauri Alanko
2011-01-19 22:02 ` [Caml-list] Generative functors how? Lauri Alanko
2011-01-20 1:43 ` [Caml-list] Limitations of first-class modules Jacques Garrigue
2011-01-20 18:04 ` Alain Frisch
2011-01-21 12:30 ` Jamie Brandon [this message]
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