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by mercurial 4080 days ago
Or you can use polymorphic variants in OCaml:

   type color = `Red | `Green | `Blue | `Black | `Brown
   type hair_color = `Black | `Brown | `Blond
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jallmann 4080 days ago
In OCaml 4.01, the compiler is smart enough to distinguish between constructors with the same name but a different type -- so those variants wouldn't even need to be polymorphic anymore. This also partially mitigates the need for 'namespacing' your variants.
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mercurial 4079 days ago
Oh, that's pretty nice. OCaml really gets namespacing problems out your way.
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