Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] candidate functions

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> > How would you go about packaging these in the extlib so that they can be
> > more or less seamlessly integrated with the stdlib. A single overarching
> > file-module?
>
> As someone suggested earlier on this list, I'd favor something like:
>
>   module Ext =
>     struct
>       module List =
> struct
>   include List
>   ... <our extensions go here>
> end
>
>       module String =
> struct
>   include String
>   ... <our extensions go here>
> end
>       ...
>     end

Linkage of binaries in bytecode application is made on a per-file basis (
and not per-module or per-function ). So in order to keep the bytecode size
small, we'll have to use several files (that's just what's the stdlib is
doing).

Nicolas Cannasse