Re: [Caml-list] A question about "8.9 First-class modules -> Advanced examples" section of the reference manual

["Nicolás Ojeda Bär" <nicolas.ojeda.bar@lexifi.com>]

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Dear Evgeny,

I am not sure how up-to-date they are, but you may be interested in the
following notes by Xavier:

  https://caml.inria.fr/pub/papers/xleroy-recursive_modules-03.pdf

Cheers,
Nicolás

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Evgeny Roubinchtein <zhenya1007@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear OCaml users and developers,
>
> I find the "Advanced examples" sub-section of the "First-class modules"
> section in the reference manual (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/
> docs/manual-ocaml/extn.html#sec244) to be a bit short on motivation.
>
> I appreciate that it may be, "possible to parametrize some code over the
> implementation of a module without using a functor", but I am having
> trouble imagining why one would want to do such a thing.  Also, the
> "without using a functor" part comes across (to me) as a bit hollow, given
> that the example provided _does_ in fact use [Set.Make] functor: it just
> hides the invocation of that functor inside the definition of the
> [make_set] function, so it reads (to me) like just a round-about way to
> invoke the [Set.Make] functor.
>
> Also, was a description of first-class modules in OCaml published in
> either a paper or a thesis, or perhaps a journal article?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> --
> Best,
> Evgeny ("Zhenya")
>

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