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From: Alessandro Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
To: ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Again on pattern matching and strings
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:16:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB79E55.4080608@baretta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <IIEMJEMIMDMLIIPHPOBLOELNCAAA.fsmith@mathworks.com>



Fred Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Instead of altering the language why not
> 
> type printerCommands = PrinterSetUnit | ...;;
> 
> and the function
> 
> match <scanning function> with
> | "\027(U\001\000\005" -> PrinterSetUnit
> | ... -> (* other cases *)
> | "" -> assert false
> 
> The rest of your program can then be independent of these bizarre strings.

Not really. I need to use these strings in a couple of 
different places, so I'd like to be able to define them only 
once, as constant identifiers, or aliases, and forget them 
entirely.

Alex

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       reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <IIEMJEMIMDMLIIPHPOBLOELNCAAA.fsmith@mathworks.com>
2002-10-24  7:16 ` Alessandro Baretta [this message]
2002-10-23 23:47 Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-23 23:46 ` Alexander V.Voinov
2002-10-23 23:57 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-24  7:10   ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-24  7:38     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-24  8:01     ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-10-24 12:38       ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-24 13:24         ` Luc Maranget
2002-10-24 15:13           ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-24 16:26           ` Sven Luther
2002-10-25  8:40             ` Luc Maranget
2002-10-24  4:11 ` Christopher Quinn
     [not found] ` <15799.14325.887770.501722@karryall.dnsalias.org>
2002-10-24  7:43   ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-24  8:51     ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-24  9:50       ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-24 10:30         ` Noel Welsh
2002-10-24 12:59         ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-24 13:16           ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2002-10-25 10:29             ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-24 12:34       ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-24 12:51         ` Daniel de Rauglaudre

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