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From: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] small problem'
To: benecke@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:27:26 +0100 (MET)
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
In-Reply-To: <200212130902.gBD920L09826@iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> from "Klaus Benecke" at déc 13, 2002 10:22:08 
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> 
> How to omit the syntax error in OCAML in CAML it runs.
> let hd = function
>     [] -> failwith "hd"
>   | a::l -> a;;
>  Characters 2-3:
>     | a::l -> a
>     ^
> Syntax error
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen
> Klaus Benecke

I do not see what is your problem exactly.
If I copy-paste your three lines in ocaml toplevel, I get :

$ ocaml
        Objective Caml version 3.06

# let hd = function
    [] -> failwith "hd"
  | a::l -> a;;
    val hd : 'a list -> 'a = <fun>

--Luc
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