Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] ExtString.String.split argument safety

[Yaron M. <ym...@gm...>]

You can (and I would say should) make the compiler warn you about
omitted labels.  That should be enough to take care of the type-safety
issue.  And I think labels are far better than cluttering the
namespace with single-use constructors like Sep.

y

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:59:48 +0200, Nicolas Cannasse <war...@fr...> wrote:
> > A little verbose:
> >
> >     ExtString.String.split "hello world" (ExtString.String.Sep " ")
> 
> As my example was showing, we don't need to put the Sep constructor into
> ExtString.String when ExtString is enough :
> 
> open ExtString
> ;;
> String.split "hello world" (Sep " ")
> 
> > But still better than the current situation.
> >
> > What's wrong with labels? This sort of thing is really what they were
> > designed for, I think.
> 
> They should be mandatory when they user doesn't specify them and several
> labels matches the same type.
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> 
> 
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