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| From: | Nicolas Pouillard <nicolas.pouillard@g...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Custom operators in the revised syntax |
On 5/13/07, ls-ocaml-developer-2006@m-e-leypold.de <ls-ocaml-developer-2006@m-e-leypold.de> wrote: > > Arnaud Spiwack <aspiwack@lix.polytechnique.fr> writes: > > > About that, Coq uses something that proved itself to be rather > > usefull, though the problematic is a bit different. It's called > > notation scopes. The idea is that infix operators are defined in a > > specific scope. That you can either open locally using (here the scope > > is open)%scopeName, or globally by using Open Scope scopeName. When a > > scope is open, all the infix operators are interpreted as its > > definition in that scope. There are also a few more technicalities to > > make it even more fun (for instance, you can bind a scope to a type t, > > then, whenever an expression is inferred to be type t, the scope t is > > automatically opened, it's a very useful feature). > > > > This allows a milde, but rather usable notation overloading. > > > > I've been wondering for quite a while if such a policy would be > > reasonable/usefull for OCaml. > > I'd like to have a way to open moduls in a restricted scop, like This is what the simple openin extension does (emulates using camlp4). http://alain.frisch.fr/soft#openin -- Nicolas Pouillard