From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Modular explicits in pre-OCaml 5.5
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:00:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91848a53-3d8c-4f09-9ac7-7f3738bea882@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d5f115c-866d-4cc0-a102-73657778a0e2@inria.fr>
Le 25/06/2026 à 16:23, Samuel Vivien a écrit :
> Indeed. Modular explicit does not add any expressiveness to the language
> (and does not impact the soundness of the type system). Every program
> that can be written using modular explicits could have been written with
> a functor encoded as a first-class module.
>
> We presented this encoding in section 1.5 of this paper about modular
> explicits : https://hal.science/hal-05428136/document
That clarifies it for me, thanks!
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2026-06-24 4:16 oleg
2026-06-25 12:45 ` Olivier Nicole
2026-06-25 14:23 ` Samuel Vivien
2026-06-30 15:00 ` Olivier Nicole [this message]
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