[Ocamlnet-devel] Thoughts on addresses

[Patrick M D. <pa...@wa...>]

I've been working on e-mail address support today and have a couple
of suggestions:

  - I think it may be good to factor out the address support to
    a Netaddress module.  It seems to distract from the focus of the
    Netmessage module.

  - Object-based representations for addresses may not be the best idea.
    I forgot that they don't support equality, which makes it impossible
    to use them as keys and it also complicates testing. I would 
    recommend switching back to a record based structure:

      type mailbox = {
        name:  string option;
        route: string list;
        spec:  addr_spec;
      }

      type t =
        [ `Mailbox of mailbox
        | `Group of string * mailbox list
        ]

Patrick