Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Include usage

[Remi V. <van...@la...>]

"Nicolas Cannasse" <war...@fr...> writes:

> Hi list !
>
> I think it would be better to reduce the size of the code and not to
> duplicate Ocaml Stdlib source code to simply use the "include" keyword.
> So for example our extHashtbl.ml file would looks like :
>
> module Hashtbl = struct
>     include Hashtbl (* the OCaml std lib one *)
>     (**  add new functions **)
> end
>
> This way we can even override the OCaml StdLib functions by redefining them
> after the include statement.
> I think it would be nice to reduce this way the extList.ml code to only
> modified/new functions, that would make things a lot clearer and results a
> lower code size.
>
> What do you think of it ?

Seem a good Idea.


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