Re: additions to standard library?

From: Markus Mottl (mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 23:29:30 MET

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    > But when using functorial interfaces like Set.Make, you have to
    > redefine these functions for each application of the functor. Thus,
    > you really need these functions to be defined in the functor i.e.
    > together with the datatype (and, by the way, you can then define these
    > functions a bit more efficiently---without using exceptions).

    Exactly - this raises another question which has been bothering me from
    time to time when using the module system:

    How can you extend the functionality of a module without having to "copy"
    the definitions of the underlying module "by hand"? In a case which I found
    particularly ugly (in the "res"-library), I had to "copy" nearly 100 lines
    as in:

      module Foo = struct
        module B = ...
        type t = B.t
        ...
        let iter = B.iter
        let iteri = B.iteri
        let map = B.map
        let mapi = B.mapi
        ...
      end

    Everytime the other module gets extended, I have to add code by hand here,
    too, to make it available. I do not see any simple workaround for this.
    Extending standard libraries with needed functionality would be much easier
    if there were a convenient way to get around the problem above.

    Regards,
    Markus Mottl

    -- 
    Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl
    



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