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Private modules in packages

Hans Ole Rafaelsen
- Michaël_Grünewald
- Julien Signoles
  - Hans Ole Rafaelsen
    - Ashish Agarwal
      - Julien Signoles
        
        Goswin von Brederlow
        
        Julien Signoles

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From:	Julien Signoles <julien.signoles@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Private modules in packages

Hello,

2010/5/21 Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>

> > write a script to generate the P.mli file
>
> Why do you need Bar.mli and Foo.mli at all? Just write the P.mli only.
>

If your pack is big, you may want to mask internals of Bar and Foo to others
modules of the pack. Actually, values exported in Bar/Foo but not in P
exactly are the module counterparts of "friend methods" in OO languages.

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Julien