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From: "Damien Guichard" <alphablock@orange.fr>
To: "caml-list@yquem.inria.fr" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Improving OCaml's choice of type to display
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:08:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910101708016568403@orange.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <604682010910091114h665b470aw7d5427fab6c72467@mail.gmail.com>

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As Ocaml modules are essentially ML modules, the MLton experience is certainly one to be carefully considered.
People, please don't hesitate to elaborate about how (un-)happy you are with ML/MLton alternate type naming strategies.

- damien





En réponse au message
de : Stephen Weeks
du : 2009-10-09 20:14:18
À : caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
CC : 
Sujet : Re: [Caml-list] Improving OCaml's choice of type to display


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Andrej Bauer  <andrej.bauer@andrej.com > wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Yaron Minsky  <yminsky@gmail.com > wrote:
> > Choosing shorter names.
>
> By which you probably mean "the fewest number of dots (module
> projections)".

That is the rule we used in MLton, breaking ties by
most-recently-defined.  It worked quite well in practice.

See
  http://mlton.org/TypeChecking

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-10 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-09  1:40 Yaron Minsky
2009-10-09  1:53 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-11 14:57   ` [Caml-list] " Jun Furuse
2009-10-11 15:12     ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-11 15:24       ` Jun Furuse
2009-10-11 19:57         ` Gilles Pirio
2009-10-11 21:17           ` [Caml-list] " Damien Guichard
2009-10-11 21:46             ` Gilles Pirio
2009-10-11 22:16               ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2009-10-09  7:33 ` Andrej Bauer
2009-10-09  9:58   ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-09 10:54     ` Alp Mestan
2009-10-09 11:15       ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-09 14:18     ` Damien Guichard
2009-10-09 14:44       ` Vincent Aravantinos
2009-10-09 15:27         ` David Allsopp
2009-10-09 16:52       ` Yaron Minsky
2009-10-09 18:23         ` Damien Guichard
2009-10-09 18:14   ` Stephen Weeks
2009-10-10 15:08     ` Damien Guichard [this message]

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