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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jon Harrop <postmaster@jdh30.plus.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Pattern matching over elements at the front of a container
Date: 26 Jun 2004 23:36:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088256992.1941.139.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406261215.26971.postmaster@jdh30.plus.com>

On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 21:15, Jon Harrop wrote:

> Also, is it not possible to alter the definition and implementation of OCaml 
> such that the pattern "(a, a)" is treated as "(a, b) when a=b"? Has this not 
> been done because the "=" is suspect?


Also sometimes it would be nice to be able to introduce 
variables in patterns:

| (a,_,1) with b = 1 | (a,b,0) ->


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-26 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-26 11:15 Jon Harrop
2004-06-26 13:36 ` skaller [this message]
2004-06-27 10:11 ` Richard Jones
2004-06-27 11:40   ` William Lovas
2004-06-28  7:57 ` Luc Maranget
2004-06-28 12:01   ` Jon Harrop
2004-06-28 12:50     ` Luc Maranget
2004-06-28 17:09       ` Jon Harrop

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