Re: [Caml-list] exposing module types

[Alain Frisch <frisch@clipper.ens.fr>]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Charles Martin wrote:

> I obviously have the wrong model of what's going on here:
>
> 	% cat foolib.ml
> 	module Foo = struct
> 	  module type INTF = sig
> 	    type 'a fruit = Apple of 'a
> 	  end
> 	  module Impl : INTF = struct
> 	    type 'a fruit = Apple of 'a
> 	  end
> 	  type 'a fruit = 'a Impl.fruit
> 	end
> 	include Foo
> 	% ocamlc -a -o foolib.cma foolib.ml


> What am I doing wrong?

The line "type 'a fruit = 'a Impl.fruit" just asserts that the type
'a fruit is the same as 'a Impl.fruit. It does not say what its
value constructors are, though this could be deduced. The solution is to
replace the line with:

type 'a fruit = 'a Impl.fruit = Apple of 'a

(or: include Impl, but that is probably not what you want to do)


-- Alain

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