Re: [Caml-list] Question

[skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 20:52, Luc Maranget wrote:

> To conclude adopting the Felix way in Ocaml is by no mean a trivial
> change and benefits are unclear, how many programs do realy use this
> feature ?

Well, none in Ocaml because it isn't present :-)
I have occasionally wanted this, but there is always
a workaround.

Basically, I think it would be useful in the following
situation:

	match x with
	| A
	| (B (j,k) when j=k) ->
	| B (j,k) ->

Without a nested when clause, you could code

	let handler () = ... in
	match x with
	| A -> handler ()
	| B (j,k) when j = k -> handler ()
	| B (j,k) -> ...

delocalising the handler. (I have matches several pages long,
so this is annoying).

Also useful would be:

	match x with
	| A i
	| B (i,k) when i = k -> ... i ..

though I can't see a way to generalise that. 

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