Re: [Caml-list] example from manual FTBFS

["Frédéric Bour" <frederic.bour@lakaban.net>]

Your snippet of code is a signature, not a structure.
Try renaming tt.ml to tt.mli.

On 09/07/2016 12:38 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I took an example from
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/u3-ocaml/ocaml-objects.html
>
> class amateur : object ('a)
>    method play : 'a -> int -> 'a
> end
> class professional : object ('a)
>    method level : int
>    method play : 'a -> int -> 'a
> end
>
> and tried to compile it:
>
> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/dv/ocaml/parse/priority$ ocamlc tt.ml -o tt
> File "tt.ml", line 4, characters 0-5:
> Error: Syntax error
> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/dv/ocaml/parse/priority$
>
> Those five characters are the word "class" on the second class
> declaration. But it's not the word "class".  If I leave that second
> class declaration out, it still complains at the same point, at the
> end of file after the first class declaration.
>
> Evidently, I'm doing something wrong.
>
> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/dv/ocaml/parse/priority$ ocamlc -version
> 4.01.0
> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/dv/ocaml/parse/priority$ which ocamlc
> /home/hendrik/.opam/4.01.0/bin/ocamlc
> hendrik@notlookedfor:~/dv/ocaml/parse/priority$
>
> -- hendrik
>
>