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Nesting Modules

Tom Hawkins
- Pietro Abate
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- Robert Roessler
- Chris King
  - Daniel_Bünzli
    - Tom Hawkins
      - Daniel_Bünzli
- Tom Hawkins
- Richard Jones
  - Daniel_Bünzli
    - Richard Jones
      - Daniel_Bünzli
        
        Richard Jones
  - Tom Hawkins
    - Richard Jones
    - Christophe TROESTLER
      - Tom Hawkins
        
        Gerd Stolpmann
- Oliver Bandel

Date:	2005-11-02 (09:27)
From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Nesting Modules

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:59:27AM -0600, Tom Hawkins wrote:
> Can I instruct the compiler to nest Bottom somewhere in Top, to obtain 
> clean, hierarchical names (eg: Top.Bottom.some_function)?  Of course I 
> can inline bottom.ml in top.ml, but then the file become rather large.

If you want clean, hierarchical names it's much better to use '_' to
separate the hierarchies (eg. Top_Bottom).  The reason for this is
that it allows others to extend your hierarchy by adding other modules
(eg. someone else can easily then create Top_MyExtension).

This means a bit of file renaming:

  top.mli
  top.ml
  top_Bottom.mli
  top_Button.ml

Rich.

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