Henri Dubois-Ferriere [Tuesday 24 September 2002] :
 >
 > Say I have a module signature M which is implemented by module structs 
 > M_1, M_2, M_3, .. M_N.
 > 
 > At runtime , depending on some command-line parameters, I will choose one 
 > of the module implementations (they use different algorithms internally). 
 > 
 > This means my main code will be littered with things like
 > 
 > if (use algorithm 1) then
 > M_1.run_algo()
 > else if (use algorithm 2) then
 > M_2.run_algo() ...

You could use local modules :

 if (use algorithm 1) then
  let module M = M_1 in
  M.run_algo() ...
 else if (use algorithm 2) then
  let module M = M_2 in
  M.run_algo() ...

the point is that the blocks under the `let module .. = ' are the
same, so you can copy/paste them. You could use some preprocessing
treatment to make it look better.

-- 
   Olivier
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