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From: michael.le_barbier@l...
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strategy to avoid name collision in signatures 
Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@fmf.uni-lj.si> writes:

> If you really want to "blend" together OrderedType and FunnyType in the
> same module, then they must be meaningfully related. What example do you
> have in mind?

A real example is where FunnyType.Make will add conveniance functions
to a ring structure (math rings). Let's say FunnyType.PROTO defines

  ...
  one: t
  zmul: int -> t ->t
  ...

FunnyProto.Make will add few functions to this interface, e.g.

  mone: t (= zmul (-1) one)
  two: t (= zmul 2 one)

-- 
All the best,
Michaël LB