From: Leo White <lpw25@cam.ac.uk>
To: Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com>
Cc: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Problem extending the Standard library
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:59:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y2afvgi9dw1.fsf@kingston.cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN6ygO=CjGzH3TuWbH9LE2=yYeVErGwDLYZ0xe4Tr0z32ao6Yg@mail.gmail.com> (Yotam Barnoy's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:52:41 -0400")
>
> Can anyone tell me why the compiler complained about Empty being an unbound constructor when it's declared in Map.Make,
> which I include?
>
I don't think `Empty` is declared in the interface of Map.Make, it may
be declared in the implementation but it is not available in the
interface. Making it available in the interface would break abstraction:
it would force `Map.Make` to keep using that particular implementation.
Regards,
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-27 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-27 14:52 Yotam Barnoy
2014-08-27 14:59 ` Leo White [this message]
2014-08-27 15:01 ` Yotam Barnoy
2014-08-27 15:04 ` Pierrick Couderc
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