From: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why must types be always defined at the top level?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:53:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040622225321.GB31368@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040622224125.GA24785@redhat.com>
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Richard Jones wrote:
> The subject says it all really. Why do types need to be defined at
> the top level of a module? Why isn't it possible to define them in
> some nested scope?
But it is (using local modules):
let f () =
let module M = struct
type t = Foo
end in
M.Foo = M.Foo
Note that you cannot return values such that the module name escapes
its scope.
Regards,
Markus
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-22 22:41 Richard Jones
2004-06-22 22:53 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2004-06-22 23:32 ` skaller
2004-06-23 12:01 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-06-23 14:45 ` skaller
2004-06-23 16:28 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-06-23 20:21 ` skaller
2004-06-23 20:52 ` skaller
2004-06-24 14:27 ` John Hughes
2004-06-24 16:47 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-06-24 17:30 ` Markus Mottl
2004-06-24 17:45 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-06-24 19:46 ` John Hughes
2004-06-24 19:56 ` David Brown
2004-06-24 19:57 ` William D. Neumann
2004-06-24 20:13 ` Olivier Andrieu
2004-06-24 23:26 ` Brian Hurt
2004-06-25 10:20 ` skaller
2004-06-25 11:07 ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-06-25 12:30 ` skaller
2004-06-25 14:38 ` [Caml-list] Thread and kernel 2.6 pb still there in CVS Christophe Raffalli
2004-06-25 16:08 ` [Caml-list] " Marco Maggesi
2004-06-25 16:32 ` Markus Mottl
2004-06-28 15:08 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2004-06-28 18:50 ` Benjamin Geer
2004-06-29 2:26 ` Christophe Raffalli
[not found] ` <7AFB5F64-C944-11D8-975C-00039310CAE8@inria.fr>
[not found] ` <40E11621.3050709@univ-savoie.fr>
2004-07-05 15:14 ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-07-05 16:34 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-07-06 9:33 ` Alex Baretta
2004-07-08 13:51 ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-07-08 15:03 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-07-09 23:21 ` Donald Wakefield
2004-07-10 10:56 ` Damien Doligez
2004-06-24 23:23 ` [Caml-list] Why must types be always defined at the top level? Brian Hurt
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406241813370.4202-100000@localhost.localdom ain>
2004-06-26 23:08 ` Dave Berry
2004-06-25 1:59 ` Yaron Minsky
2004-06-24 23:08 ` Brian Hurt
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