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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: William <r.3@libertysurf.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml 4.03 and warning 52 : argument of this constructor should not be matched against a constant pattern
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:36:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32C540F73D89478D9E6D2AF2599F639F@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <572084CC.1080408@libertysurf.fr>

Le mercredi, 27 avril 2016 à 11:22, William a écrit :
> How are we supposed to handle this nicely with the standard library ? Is
> there a better approach to catch those exceptions ?

Capture them immediately around the function call that raises with a _ pattern.  
For example:  

match (try Some (List.hd lst) with Failure _ -> None) with
| None -> Printf.printf "empty list\n"
| Some hd -> …

That's the way these functions should have been defined in the first place.

Best,  

Daniel



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27  9:22 William
2016-04-27  9:28 ` David Allsopp
2016-04-27  9:36 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2016-04-27  9:43   ` Jacques-Henri Jourdan
2016-04-27  9:51     ` Roberto Di Cosmo
2016-04-27 10:00     ` Daniel Bünzli
2016-04-27 10:04       ` Jacques-Henri Jourdan
2016-04-28  7:25         ` Goswin von Brederlow
2016-04-27 11:01 ` Gabriel Scherer
2016-04-27 17:17   ` Adrien Nader
2016-04-27 18:20     ` Gabriel Scherer

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