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From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] fighting the type system
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:48:05 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59D72B1A-4A89-4A13-B585-70B57F45B4AD@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA51F199-538A-486F-ADB0-76BE93B96CB2@gmail.com>

On 2011/03/24, at 9:16, Joel Reymont wrote:
>> If you just want the Endpoint interface to specify an object type
>> containing at least write, you could use a private row type:
> 
> The private row type is what I was clearly missing.
> 
> Why does it work with the private row type, though? 

Because if you just define a constrained type every occurrence is
going to be a different instance of this type, while a private row type
ensures that this is the same type throughout the module.

> Are there other uses for 'private' in a module?
> 
> Is the use of private row types described somewhere?

They are described described in section 7.9.3 of the manual:
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual021.html#toc76

You can find more examples in my paper:
http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/papers/privaterows-aplas2006.pdf

Cheers,

Jacques Garrigue

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-23 22:01 Joel Reymont
2011-03-23 22:19 ` [Caml-list] " Joel Reymont
2011-03-23 23:52   ` Joel Reymont
2011-03-23 23:56 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2011-03-24  0:16   ` Joel Reymont
2011-03-24  0:48     ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]

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