Re: [Caml-list] type issues with modules

[Damien <Damien.Pous@ens-lyon.fr>]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:21:47 +0900 Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> As specified in the reference manual, the combination of .ml and .mli
> is expected to mean:
>   module type Sig_mod1 = sig <mod1.mli> end
>   module Struct_mod1 = struct <mod1.ml> end
>   module Mod1 : Sig_mod1 = Struct_mod1

Let's be a bit fussy...
 
The manual says :
<<
	module Mod1: sig <mod1.mli> end = struct <mod1.ml> end
>>

Hopefully, because the first translation would export hidden parts of
Mod1 via Struct_mod1.

But I think that giving a name to the signature of Mod1 (Sig_mod1) could
be useful :

<<
	module type MOD1 : sig <mod1.mli> end
	module Mod1 : MOD1 = struct <mod1.ml> end
>>

Especially when hand-packing some modules : 
"ocamlc -pack" checks the packed cmo against an optional interface file,
but the latter is rather boring to write, since one has to copy&paste
the content of each packed interface.

If the module types were given a name, one could just write 
<<
	module Mod1: MOD1
	...
>>

damien

PS: I tried "module Mod1: Sig_mod1", of course it doesn't work :-(

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