From: "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] suggestion for record pattern matching and construction
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:52:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030910185255.GF25815@ecooper.com> (raw)
I find that I am often writing code like
{ field1 = field1; field2 = field2; field3 = field3 }
when matching and constructing records. I guess it's because thinking
up good names for the record fields is nontrivial and having similar
but different names for the bindings just bothers me.
How about allowing syntax like that used for labels:
{ ~field1; ~field2; ~field3 }
would expand into the above, in both pattern matching and construction
contexts.
This is orthogonal to (and I think much simpler than) omitting some
fields via "..." notation.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-10 18:52 Eric C. Cooper [this message]
2003-09-10 23:19 ` Olivier Andrieu
2003-09-14 19:32 ` brogoff
2003-09-11 13:49 ` [Caml-list] FreeBSD + lablglut + thread: bug or not bug Christophe Raffalli
2003-09-11 14:25 ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-09-11 14:30 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2003-09-11 15:11 ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-09-11 15:23 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2003-09-11 17:33 ` Issac Trotts
2003-09-11 20:01 ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-09-11 20:09 ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-09-11 20:38 ` Issac Trotts
2003-09-12 5:57 ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-09-12 6:34 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2003-09-22 12:16 ` Christophe Raffalli
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