From: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, Anthony Tavener <anthony.tavener@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Subtyping structurally-equivalent records, or something like it?
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 12:55:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <602616.65342.qm@web111501.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
Hi,
> type kinematic = { lin: Vec.t; ang: Vec.t }
>
> Which I've been using to represent a medley of physical attributes (force, > momentum, velocity, etc.).
I second Stéphane's suggestion of using phantom types; moreover,
I recommend you read an article that discusses them to some detail
and covers their use for precisely this sort of problem:
http://camltastic.blogspot.com/2008/05/phantom-types.html
Cheers,
Dario Teixeira
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2010-05-01 19:55 Dario Teixeira [this message]
2010-05-01 20:01 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-05-04 10:33 ` [Caml-list] " AUGER Cédric
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2010-05-04 11:53 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-05-04 12:47 ` [Caml-list] " rossberg
2010-05-04 13:42 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-05-04 15:18 ` [Caml-list] " Fabrice Le Fessant
2010-05-05 9:31 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-05-05 12:12 ` rossberg
2010-05-05 16:46 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-05-04 13:37 ` Edgar Friendly
2010-05-05 9:33 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-05-05 11:10 ` Yaron Minsky
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2010-05-01 16:04 Anthony Tavener
2010-05-01 16:51 ` [Caml-list] " Stéphane Lescuyer
2010-05-02 2:59 ` Anthony Tavener
2010-05-07 9:42 ` AUGER
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