From: nicolas.pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
To: David.Teller <david.teller@mlstate.com>
Cc: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>,
caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>,
Andrej Bauer <andrej.bauer@andrej.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Defining a family of functors
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:37:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233221605-sup-9234@ausone.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233141926.6908.4.camel@Blefuscu>
Excerpts from David Teller's message of Wed Jan 28 12:25:26 +0100 2009:
> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 01:32 +0100, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> > The encoding of modules using existential types in non modular, this
> > basically means that you have to heavily transform the source.
> >
> > What one need to encode modules is "open" existential types, this well
> > and clearly explained in this POPL'09 paper:
> >
> > «Modeling Abstract Types in Modules with Open Existential Types»,
> > by Benoît Montagu and Didier Rémy
>
> Yes, I was just reading that paper. However, it is my impression that we
> could get away without open existential types, at the cost of reduced
> features.
>
> On the other hand, it was pointed to me that Alain already wrote a
> compiler patch implementing first-class modules.
That's right.
--
Nicolas Pouillard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-29 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 15:08 Michaël Grünewald
2009-01-26 15:15 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Carette
2009-01-27 14:30 ` Andrej Bauer
2009-01-27 14:47 ` Jacques Carette
2009-01-27 21:12 ` David Teller
2009-01-28 0:32 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2009-01-28 11:25 ` David Teller
2009-01-29 9:37 ` nicolas.pouillard [this message]
2009-01-29 10:40 ` David Allsopp
2009-01-29 21:14 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2009-01-30 8:25 ` Michaël Grünewald
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