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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
To: "Jeffrey J. Cook" <jjcook@uiuc.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] polymorphic type constructor deconstructor
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:28:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4069A4E9-9B58-11D7-AB87-0003930FCE12@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030606213021.GE27432@crhc.uiuc.edu>

On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 11:30 PM, Jeffrey J. Cook wrote:

> let request = REQ_do_this 5 in
> let reply = Socket.client "mysocket" request in
> let success =
>   match reply with
>   | REPLY_do_this x -> x
>   | _ -> failwith "this case shouldn't happen and is annoying"

You can use patterns in the left-hand part of a let:

let request = REQ_do_this 5 in
let reply = Socket.client "mysocket" request in
let REPLY_do_this success = reply in
... success ...

The compiler will complain about a non-exhaustive pattern matching,
but that's only fair.

-- Damien

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-10 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-06 21:30 Jeffrey J. Cook
2003-06-06 22:37 ` Jeffrey J. Cook
2003-06-07  0:09   ` John Max Skaller
2003-06-07  8:22   ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2003-06-10 15:28 ` Damien Doligez [this message]

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