On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 08:12, Brian Hurt wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Micha wrote:

> Another thing- longtime Ocaml programmers tend to inline their structure 
> definitions.  

Why? Because binding implicitly by name is basically bogus?
So you write

	Set.Make(struct let compare=String.compare ...

because the name in the functor 'compare' only agrees
accidentally. The anonymous struct there seems general,
and at least exposes explicitly the bindings.

Of course the *implicit* binding in C++ templates (dependent
name lookup) is something some of us have learned to hate
intensely.. especially when the template calls T().compare ..
and our input class spelled it 'Compare' ..


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