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From: Raphael Proust <raphlalou@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Cc: sieira <jaimito.hendrix@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Doubt about function delaration parameter
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:56:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012151756.48546.raphlalou@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30465308.post@talk.nabble.com>

Le mercredi 15 décembre 2010 17:15:23, sieira a écrit :
> Thanks for your replies. I'm now having some issue with Raphael's
> suggestion of using (string * string) list;; as the menu type.
> 
> 
> type menu = (string*string) list;;
> 
> Results in a syntax error at the first parenthesis, while
> 
> type menu = string*string;;
> 
> fails too (at the asterisk)
> 
> It seems like I'm missing something. Since according to the
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-caml-light/node3.5.html documentantion
> , this sintax should be right.
> 
> I'm using Camllight 0.81 by François Boisson running in Ubuntu lucid lynx

I just installed Camllight and I encountered the problem as you. Because the 
type menu is just a shorter name for the complete type (string * string) list, 
you have to use:
type menu == ( string * string ) list ;;

(with two '=' signs)
I don't know the exact rule about this. It might be close to the difference 
between 'type' and 'data' in Haskell.

Good luck!
-- 
_______
Raphaël


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-15 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-15 14:03 sieira
2010-12-15 15:14 ` Ashish Agarwal
2010-12-15 15:18 ` Esther Baruk
2010-12-15 16:15 ` sieira
2010-12-15 16:37   ` David Allsopp
2010-12-15 16:56   ` Raphael Proust [this message]
2010-12-15 17:12     ` bluestorm

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