[ocaml-platform] on the need and design of OCaml namespaces

[Malcolm Matalka]

So would a syntax extension always have to store the modules it wants to
be sure to access at the beginning of a file it requires, making sure
not to choose overlapping names?

Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli at erratique.ch> writes:

> Le vendredi, 22 février 2013 à 13:14, Anil Madhavapeddy a écrit :
>> This remains a problem in any code-generation approach, including ppx. Namespaces are just another way of manipulating modules, so we
> could call them 'module aliases' if having a new word is scaring people off.
>
> But this is already part of the language (module M = M'), just make its cost negligible. Now maybe it's just a matter of rendering stdlib
> less pervasives or as you suggest to make its components available under another toplevel name. What I doubt is that some new mechanism
> really has to be introduced.
>
> Daniel
>
>
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