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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:08:59 -0400
From: William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>
To: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Pattern matching missing (or brain damage?)
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:22:44AM +0200, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> I believe I remember a pattern matching construct where an 
> expression could be associated with multiple patterns.
> 
> match <expr> with
> | A(_) | B(_) | C(_) -> foo
> | C(_) | D(_) | E(_) -> bar
> 
> Neither does the compiler accept such code, nor does the 
> manual mention such construct. Has it been removed from the 
> language or am I suffering severe brain damage from too much 
> O'Caml coding?

This is legal.  It's covered in the Chapter 6 of the manual, under
Patterns, sub-heading ``Or'' patterns:

    http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual014.html

You might be having trouble if your subpatterns don't bind exactly 
the same variables...

William
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