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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: David Brown <davidb@davidb.org>
Cc: Sam Steingold <sds@podval.org>,
	Christian Lindig <lindig@cs.uni-sb.de>,
	Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] warning on value shadowing
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:15:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172099757.25438.6.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DCBEED.10706@davidb.org>

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:51 -0800, David Brown wrote:

> >>> Proposal: When both foo.ml and bar.ml define zot and quux.ml opens
> >>> both Foo and Bar, there should be a warning [..]

> One could also argue that this condition is an error.  

IMHO, only an error on use of the ambiguous name.
It should be a hard error then. It can be resolved
by qualification.

I don't believe this is inconsistent with deliberate
hiding like let x = e in let x = x + 1 in .. indeed
this can also be used to resolve a conflict:

open A
open B
let x = A.x 

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-21 20:41 Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 20:57 ` [Caml-list] " Christian Lindig
2007-02-21 21:10   ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 21:51     ` David Brown
2007-02-21 22:04       ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-21 22:13         ` [Caml-list] " David Brown
2007-02-21 23:15       ` skaller [this message]
2007-02-21 22:25 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-02-23 20:40   ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-22  0:54 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2007-02-22  1:09   ` David Brown
2007-02-23 15:12     ` Wolfgang Lux
2007-02-23 20:51   ` Sam Steingold
2007-02-24  3:31     ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-02-25  0:23       ` Sam Steingold
     [not found] <20070221223151.97901BC76@yquem.inria.fr>
2007-02-21 22:56 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2007-02-21 23:20   ` skaller
2007-02-22  0:19   ` Jon Harrop

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