Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] I lied- had time to work on ExtList after all

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

> > What I thought was going to be a long meeting turned out to be a short
> > meeting, so I took a spin through ExtList (attached).  If there aren't
any
> > comments, I'll check it in tomorrow.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > module List = struct
> >
>
>
> How do I use this module without clobbering
> the one in the standard distribution?

open ExtLib

will do the job.
This as already been discussed on this list, and should be included in the
ExtLib documentation introduction : "how to use extlib".

> Do I just add a path component to the compiler command line?
> So then, I can't revert to the List in the distribution
> within a single file?

Reverting is not a good thing , since we're adding functions and even
modifying some behaviors.
If you have existing code, either you add "open ExtList" to override the
ocaml std one, or you can do "open ExtLib" to be able to access new
functions via the ExtList module.

Nicolas Cannasse