On 8/21/07, Olivier Andrieu <oandrieu@gmail.com> wrote:

> actually, you can write
>   let y = {Foo.a=3; b=4}
>
> i.e. you only need the module name on one field of the record, not all


Indeed, at Jane Street, we've come to favor the following idiom:

   let y  = { Module_name.
              field1 = val1;
              field2 = val2;
              ...
            }

The module name then works almost like a constructor, so you hardly need the
syntax extension discussed elsewhere in this thread.

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