On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Sylvain Le Gall <sylv...@le-gall.net> wrote: > On 31-10-2010, Wojciech Daniel Meyer <wojciech.me...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> bluestorm <bluestorm.d...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> It was actually the case in Caml Light : each datatype constructor >>> implicitly declared a constructor function with the same name. I >>> don't exactly know why this feature was dropped in Objective Caml, >>> but I think I remember (from a previous discussion) that people >>> weren't sure it was worth the additional complexity. >> >> Would that be not possible now with Camlp4 extension? >> > > I am pretty sure, it is possible to implement them with camlp4. Just a > matter of time -- and motivation. > > The only limitation I can see, is that the generated constructors won't > be capitalized. E.g.: > > type t = MyConstr | YourConstr of int > > => > > type t = MyConstr | YourConstr of int > > let myConstr = MyConstr > let yourConstr i = YouConstr i >
Why do you say so? HOL Light uses capitalized identifiers for values, for example. It's probably possible to do whatever one reasonably wants. _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
