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From: james woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
To: tim@fungible.com (Tim Freeman)
Cc: The Trade <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Allow declaring classes "final" so self type has no type variables?
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:18:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C79C09FF-C1D5-11D6-8D7B-000393BA7EBA@wetware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020906192333.1663A7F9A@lobus.fungible.com>

On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 12:12 US/Pacific, Tim Freeman wrote:
>
> Any comments on whether this is a good idea?

Hide the class with a module signature.  Publish only the class type 
and one or more functions for constructing objects.

In other words, don't put your "class node" in the module type.  
Instead just define a function:

	val create_node: parent:nodetype option -> nodetype

The way to prevent programmers from using your class in an "inherit" 
clause is to not give them the class in the first place.  Just give 
them the class type and a collection of functions.


-- 
j h woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
markets are only free to the people who own them.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-06 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-06 19:12 Tim Freeman
2002-09-06 20:18 ` james woodyatt [this message]
2002-09-06 20:38   ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-09-06 21:15     ` james woodyatt
2002-09-11  0:16       ` Tim Freeman
2002-09-11  5:09         ` james woodyatt

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