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"opening" record types

Yitzhak Mandelbaum
- Olivier Andrieu
  - Yaron Minsky
- Christophe TROESTLER
  - Daniel de Rauglaudre
- Virgile Prevosto
- Philippe Wang
  - Jeremy Yallop

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Daniel de Rauglaudre <daniel.de_rauglaudre@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] "opening" record types

Hi,

> Is there any way around this?  That is, is there any way to use the  
> field names of a record defined in another module without opening the  
> whole module or copying the whole definition of the record.

Yes, instead of doing "open Foo", do:

  type t = Foo.t = {a: int; b:int}

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Daniel de Rauglaudre
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