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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] let int = ?([' ' '\t'] '-') digits+
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:40:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706291740.06735.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46852BBD.3020407@fischerventure.com>

On Friday 29 June 2007 16:56:45 Robert C Fischer wrote:
> How would I write f - 1 to mean "one less than the value of f"?

As:

  f - 1

The space before the digit means that it will not match this regexp.

Or:

  f-1

The lack of a space before the "-" means that it will not match this regexp.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
The OCaml Journal
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_journal/?e


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-29 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-29 15:39 Jon Harrop
2007-06-29 15:56 ` [Caml-list] " Robert C Fischer
2007-06-29 16:32   ` Brian Hurt
2007-06-29 16:40   ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-06-29 18:21     ` Philippe Wang
2007-06-29 15:57 ` pzimmer
2007-06-29 16:35   ` Robert C Fischer
2007-06-29 16:41   ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-29 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-29 18:11   ` [Caml-list] " Robert C Fischer
2007-06-29 21:05     ` Jon Harrop
2007-06-29 18:29 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-06-29 18:53   ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2007-06-29 19:21     ` Daniel Bünzli

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