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From: michael.le_barbier@laposte.net (Michaël Le Barbier)
To: Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com
Cc: "Michaël Le Barbier" <michael.le_barbier@laposte.net>,
	caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strategy to avoid name collision in signatures
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:15:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <864pg28rjj.fsf@Llea.celt.neu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472CFA7C.60901@fmf.uni-lj.si> (Andrej Bauer's message of "Sat\, 03 Nov 2007 23\:47\:24 +0100")

Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@fmf.uni-lj.si> writes:

> If you really want to "blend" together OrderedType and FunnyType in the
> same module, then they must be meaningfully related. What example do you
> have in mind?

A real example is where FunnyType.Make will add conveniance functions
to a ring structure (math rings). Let's say FunnyType.PROTO defines

  ...
  one: t
  zmul: int -> t ->t
  ...

FunnyProto.Make will add few functions to this interface, e.g.

  mone: t (= zmul (-1) one)
  two: t (= zmul 2 one)

-- 
All the best,
Michaël LB


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-04  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-03 22:20 Michaël Le Barbier
2007-11-03 22:47 ` [Caml-list] " Andrej Bauer
2007-11-04  6:15   ` Michaël Le Barbier [this message]
2007-11-04  0:01 ` Julien Moutinho
2007-11-04  7:34   ` Michaël Le Barbier

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