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From: Philip <feucht@uni-koblenz.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] from if...else to pattern matching
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:22:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286029361.2168.47.camel@io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinpu++qk2A3UYJ-t+==bbmb-CWikmPMTATjasKi@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 16:04 +0200, ben kuin wrote:
> hi
> I try to transform an if-else clause into pattern matching, I think
> I've tried a lot of approaches, but apperently I'm doing something
> fundemently wrong.
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~
> (** Define behaviors against a constang   'x =< c' with if...else and
> pattern matching.
> I want to see how to match a value against funtion **)
> 
> (* defining a  '=<' operator *)
> let (=<) a b = if a < b then true else if a == b then true else false;;
> 
> let if_test c  =
> if ( 4 =< c )then
>   true
> else
>   false
> ;;
> 
> (* and now use the operator in pattern matching * )
> let match_test c =
>   match  ( _ =< c ) (* pseudocode *)
>     | 4 -> true
>     | _ -> false
> ;;
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> thanks in advance
> ben
> 

whoa, thats hard,
try:

# let t x = match x with
  a when x<=4 -> true
  | _ -> false;;

btw, there is a beginner-list and irc-channel,
Philip

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-02 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-02 14:04 ben kuin
2010-10-02 14:22 ` Philip [this message]
2010-10-02 14:47   ` [Caml-list] " ben kuin
2010-10-02 16:09     ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2010-10-02 17:54 ` Jon Harrop

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