> Would it be fair to say that the main distinction between private types
> and abstract types is that with private types, constructors are only
> invocable from inside the module, but destructors (e.g., pattern
> matching) are available both inside and outside of the module?
> 
> y
> -- 
> |--------/            Yaron M. Minsky              \--------|
> |--------\ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/yminsky/ /--------|

You are right: that's yet another way to say it :)

Pierre Weis

INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/


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