OCaml records/field names

If anyone knows OCaml, could you tell me why field names alias those of other records? Is this just a product of the type inference or is there some deeper reason?

It seems unnecessarily limiting to me, but I'm not really deep enough into it to tell how much I'll be using records from the same namespace.

Ah, indeed. It's a minor annoyance though: you don't need too much records in one module usually.