Xavier Leroy wrote:
> 
> > I've just found out to my surprise that the following does not work:

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> > This yields the following error:
> >   Illegal permutation of structure fields
> >
> > Why is this illegal? Wouldn't it be very straightforward to normalize
> > the signatures (e.g. sort elements by name) before matching them?
> 
> That's more or less what old versions of OCaml did, but it's
> incorrect.  The reason is that a module signature determine the layout
> of the corresponding structure: if

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I don't understand this explanation. Markus suggested
_normalising_ the order by name. That is, the 'actual'
storage order of elements is determined by their names,
not by the order of writing.

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