Re: [Caml-list] Problem with parametric classes

["Sami Mäkelä" <sajuma@utu.fi>]

Frederic Tronel wrote:
> I'm using Ocaml 3.04 (plus a patch applied to circumvent a
> problem with parametric classes bug id 841).
> 
> I'm trying to compile the following piece of code (more
> precisely, this is a significant excerpt of the faulty code).
> which fails with the following error:
> 
> File "essai.ml", line 71, characters 5-491:
> The abbreviation specElement expands to type
> < get_ident : int; get_name : string; mytype : specelement;
>   recv : string * comm list -> string * string list -> unit;
>   send : comm -> string -> unit; set_ident : int -> unit;
>   set_name : string -> unit >
> but is used with type < get_ident : int; set_ident : int -> unit; .. >

[...]
 
> 
> What is the problem ???
> It does compile if I comment out send and recv methods of class
> specElement.
> Any help would be really appreciated.
> 

This is the same problem as "What does this mean?" thread last week.
The type of "countingObjects" would become
 < get_ident : int; get_name : string; mytype : specelement;
   recv : string * comm list -> string * string list -> unit;
   send : comm -> string -> unit; set_ident : int -> unit;
   set_name : string -> unit > countingObjects,
but type comm is defined after countingObjects.
The solution is to move the definition of countingObjects.
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