Re: [Caml-list] GC and file descriptors

[Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>]

On 20 Nov 2003, skaller wrote:

> So either you give up explicit interfaces (mli files,
> signatures, etc) or you have to have an extension
> to the type system terms which allows you to state the
> exception spec.

I'd consider this a bonus :-).  There are two obvious ways you could do 
this:

1) introduce a new keyword 'public'.  Only types and values declared 
public are exported, everything else is considered internal to the file.  
So you could have:

type public foo = This | That ;; (* exported *)
type bar = Which | What ;; (* not exported *)
let quux = ... ;; (* not exported *)
let public baz = ... ;; (* exported *)

2) introduce a new keyword 'private'.  Everything except those types and 
values marked private is exported.

Note that we're breaking working code here.

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