From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@janestreet.com>,
OCaML List Mailing <caml-list@inria.fr>,
Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Record field disambiguation in 4.01
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:42:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+p7B-wPJuP5DoMVNsn=TMHZDss47o+qm-YCHE=n4AD3LMcaGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFanBFqR06W6nLeQSDrS8AtKmmgjKGurMjw8-rejLHRUdNT7w@mail.gmail.com>
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It's just that when you look up the label you get a list in reverse order:
last one first.
Would it be really clearer to reverse it at again when printing?
Jacques
2013/03/13 2:08 "Gabriel Scherer" <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>:
> Also on the new warning (thanks for the quick change!): I find it a
> bit strange that the message gives a list of possibilities then says
> "The first one was selected", while in my mental model the *last*
> declared type is chosen by default. I don't know if it's actually
> possible to list types by declaration order (levels?), but maybe you
> could at least arrange so that the selected one appears last? Or at
> least you could reword into "The last declaration of this field has
> type M.t, but types M.u and N.t would also be valid".
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>
> wrote:
> > On 13-03-12 11:05 AM, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> >>
> >> I have improved the warning (revision 13395), so that it tells you the
> >> types involved. This should actually help in some hairy situations.
> >
> >
> > Would it also make sense to give the fully qualified names for the
> ambiguous
> > fields? This should also give a strong hint as to where the conflict
> comes
> > from.
> >
> > (another) Jacques
> >
> >
> >
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-09 23:39 Yaron Minsky
2013-03-10 1:24 ` Jacques Garrigue
2013-03-11 11:38 ` Maxence Guesdon
2013-03-12 7:57 ` Alain Frisch
2013-03-10 3:04 ` Markus Mottl
2013-03-10 9:33 ` Gabriel Scherer
2013-03-11 10:31 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2013-03-12 11:30 ` Leo White
2013-03-11 18:49 ` Yaron Minsky
2013-03-11 11:52 ` Alain Frisch
2013-03-11 18:52 ` Yaron Minsky
2013-03-12 8:05 ` Alain Frisch
2013-03-12 15:05 ` Jacques Garrigue
2013-03-12 15:29 ` Jacques Carette
2013-03-12 17:07 ` Gabriel Scherer
2013-03-12 20:42 ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]
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