From: Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com>
To: Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com>
Cc: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>,
Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Warnings opening modules (was: why is building ocaml hard?)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:58:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6650375677998504317@unknownmsgid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxsn=Hqmy6DWDf4upAe6iUKWYB4kvZDWhtQA+xxw5+MtQPkJg@mail.gmail.com>
Ok I have to admit that's pretty convenient.
> On Jul 15, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Jeremy Yallop <yallop@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 15 July 2016 at 17:57, Yotam Barnoy <yotambarnoy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In haskell, I can just say 'import A (foo, bar, baz, t)' to limit
>> exactly what I want to import. This is because haskell has a
>> half-baked module system that isn't nearly as powerful as OCaml's,
>> which allows it to create syntax that doesn't need to go anywhere but
>> at the toplevel.
>>
>> We need this functionality in OCaml, but the closest thing is to say
>> 'include struct let foo = A.foo let bar = A.bar let baz = A.baz type t
>> = A.t end'
>
> This can be written more succinctly:
>
> let foo, bar, baz = A.(foo, bar, baz)
> type t = A.t
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-15 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-10 11:57 David Allsopp
2016-07-10 19:45 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2016-07-13 12:08 ` David Allsopp
2016-07-13 12:20 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2016-07-13 12:30 ` David Allsopp
2016-07-14 9:03 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2016-07-15 9:52 ` David Allsopp
2016-07-15 16:13 ` Hendrik Boom
2016-07-15 16:57 ` Yotam Barnoy
2016-07-15 18:09 ` Jeremy Yallop
2016-07-15 18:26 ` Hendrik Boom
2016-07-15 18:58 ` Yotam Barnoy [this message]
2016-07-15 19:26 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2016-07-15 19:42 ` Yotam Barnoy
2016-07-15 19:52 ` Jeremy Yallop
2016-07-15 20:25 ` Yotam Barnoy
2016-07-15 18:50 ` Alain Frisch
2016-07-15 19:44 ` Hendrik Boom
2016-07-15 17:04 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2016-07-20 7:49 ` Louis Gesbert
2016-07-16 7:40 ` Petter A. Urkedal
2016-07-16 9:58 ` vrotaru.md
2016-07-19 16:37 ` Yotam Barnoy
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