On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:10:43 -0400, David House <dmho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 August 2010 17:47, bluestorm <bluestorm.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you don't have any of these, you have to declare infix operators > > directly inside the module. You'd have a "val (=) : int -> int -> > > bool" in the "int.ml" file for example. That's notoriously painful to > > handle if you use the "open" statement : a bunch of "open" statements > > in a non-careful order and your infix operators become unusable > > because you don't know anymore where they come from. What you really > > need is some form of "explicit open", à la Python or Haskell, such as > > "from Int import (mod, of_char, to_char)" instead of the full open : > > only a few identifiers are unqualified, and you still use Int.(=), > > Int.(+) instead of polluting the global namespace. > > If you're willing to explicitly name the things you wish to import > then this doesn't seem to be a hard problem to solve: > > let mod = Int.mod > let of_char = Int.of_char > let to_char = Int.tochar
You may want to import types, data constructors, exceptions, modules as well... While some of them can be mitigated data constructors cannot AFAIK. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
