From: coste@irit.fr
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] reuse of abstract types
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 20:15:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sympa.1336411128.30880.441@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To:
Hello,
While using the module system to abstract types, I often encounter the problem
to reuse in a signature an abstract type declared in another signature. Let's
take an example.
I have a module M, which declares an abstract type t, with operations using
this type.
module type MT = sig
type t
val f : t -> ....
end
Now I want to design a module Q, with operations using type t. To refer to t in
the signature of Q, I am obliged to declare a module Mt : MT inside the
signature
module type QT = sig
module Mt : MT
val g : Mt.t -> ....
end
Now the module M itself, before Q, because of sharing constraint in Q:
module M : MT = struct
type t = int
let f x = ....
end
And finally the module Q, which must contain a module Mt to respect its
signature:
module Q : (QT with type Mt.t = M.t) = struct
module Mt = M
let g x = ....
end
As generally my modules are functors I will probably rather write the module
QF:
module QF (Mx:MT) : (QT with type Mt.t = Mx.t) = struct
module Mt = Mx
let g x = ...
end
And finally instanciate QF:
module Q2 = QF (M)
The declaration of Mt in QT and QF is here only to reference the type t. It
seems natural that QF be parameterized by Mx:MT as it will certainly use
operations of M, but what seems artificial is the declaration of Mt in the
signature QT (and hence in the functor QF). Intuitively, I would say that the
signature QT refers to the type t declared in the signature MT, not in the
structure M.
Is there a simpler way to do this ? I suspect my solution is too complicate,
but I couldn't find better...
next reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-07 18:15 coste [this message]
2012-05-07 20:37 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-05-08 9:53 ` rossberg
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