>From: Andrew Martin <amartin@ibmoto.com>

>How can one deal with two struct types whose members have the same names.
>In Ocaml, for example:
>
>type foo = {a:int; b:int}
>type goo ={a:char; b:char}
>
>How can I now create an object of type foo?  It would be nice if I could write
>let x = ({a=4; b=5;}:foo) or
>let x = {foo.a=4; foo.b=4} or even
>let (x:foo) = {a=4; b=4}


You can get (almost) your second solution simply by declaring:

  type foo = {foo_a : int; foo_b : int};;
  type goo = {goo_a : char; goo_b : char};;

Then you can write:

  let x = {foo_a = 4; foo_b = 4}


-- Damien