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From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: louis.gesbert@laposte.net
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Bugs with pattern-matching and exceptions
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:03:07 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060301.090307.21363387.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd9ef41e48da6ab455097a454246dda9@myco.ath.cx>

From: Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert@laposte.net>

> # exception E' = E;;
> # match E with E' -> true | _ -> false;;
> - : bool = false
>
> This is with Caml 3.08.3, but it doesn't seem to have been corrected in
> earlier versions. Any ideas ? If the structure exception E = F is
> considered useful, a stronger semantics should be attached to it, but is it
> really ?

In general bugs are not corrected in _earlier_ versions :-)
This is fixed in 3.09.

# exception E' = E;;
# match E with E' -> true | _ -> false;;
- : bool = true

Jacques Garrigue


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-01  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-28 12:29 Louis Gesbert
2006-02-28 15:51 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2006-03-01  0:03 ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]
2006-03-01  7:00   ` Alain Frisch
     [not found] ` <200602281333.52448.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
2006-03-01 11:10   ` Louis Gesbert
2006-03-01 23:07 Louis Gesbert
2006-03-02  6:47 ` Alain Frisch
2006-03-03  9:02   ` Louis Gesbert

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