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From: "Milan Stanojević" <milanst@gmail.com>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Cc: Leo P White <lpw25@cam.ac.uk>,
	Thomas Braibant <thomas.braibant@gmail.com>,
	 OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Quizz
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:32:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKR7PS_GGqqE-NYhHuMCBs+Nb7399P5FxaHAuJwC+F41g2rLNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED9C9FB2-9BFF-423A-85C4-012BEB381928@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

> The main problem is not so much syntax, as the fact it would require to make
> all definitions in the Types module mutually recursive. Not only that, but
> operations like path substitution need to be mutually recursive in the same
> way. So the question is whether the small gain in flexibility is worth making the
> implementation more complex.
> (Note that an extra gain is that it becomes possible to expand a module type
> definition when leaving its scope)

In my work I mostly just wanted to be able to just do something like
(module M : Intable with type t = t), i.e just specializing existing
module type with "with type =" or "with type :=".
Is this special case any easier to implement?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-14 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-13 17:09 Thomas Braibant
2015-01-13 20:51 ` Leo White
2015-01-13 21:10   ` Milan Stanojević
2015-01-14  0:09     ` Leo White
2015-01-14  7:02       ` Jacques Garrigue
2015-01-14 16:32         ` Milan Stanojević [this message]
2015-01-14 17:24           ` Leo White
2015-01-15  9:41             ` Jacques Garrigue

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