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
next prev 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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