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From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: WatchDog <watchdog@noos.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] No patterns of type vect
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 09:25:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030504162501.GA20150@opus.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB53ABD.9090902@noos.fr>

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 06:07:25PM +0200, WatchDog wrote:
> Hello !
> I'm using CamlLight 0.74, and I've just noticed it is not possible to 
> use a pattern-matching with patterns of type vect.
> For instance, the dummy function below is not valid :
> 
> let head = function
> [||] -> failwith "no_head"
> | t -> t.(0) ;;
> 
> OK, I acknowledge that lists would be more suitable for such a function, 
> but why is it forbidden to match on vectors (or arrays, for the 
> Objective Camlists) ?

It works in objective caml, so I suspect it just hadn't been done yet in
CamlLight.

Dave

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-04 16:25 UTC|newest]

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2003-05-04 16:07 WatchDog
2003-05-04 16:25 ` David Brown [this message]

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