On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Richard Jones wrote:
> The subject says it all really.  Why do types need to be defined at
> the top level of a module?  Why isn't it possible to define them in
> some nested scope?

But it is (using local modules):

  let f () =
    let module M = struct
      type t = Foo
    end in
    M.Foo = M.Foo

Note that you cannot return values such that the module name escapes
its scope.

Regards,
Markus

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Markus Mottl          http://www.oefai.at/~markus          markus@oefai.at

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