From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA03997; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:50:35 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04927 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:50:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.lindows.com (mail.lindows.com [130.94.123.204]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4EFoWSH016263 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:50:33 +0200 Received: from lindows.com (adsl-63-196-84-93.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [63.196.84.93]) by mail.lindows.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408274A1A7C; Fri, 14 May 2004 08:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40A4EAC8.2080905@lindows.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 08:50:32 -0700 From: David Fox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040414 Debian/1.5-2.0.0.lindows0.0.67.45+0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ocaml Subject: [Caml-list] "changing" immutable record elements Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40A4EAC8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; lindows:01 immutable:01 prettier:01 rec:01 rec:01 match:02 let:04 fox:04 fox:04 seems:05 core:06 feature:07 david:09 david:09 language:10 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Unless I am missing some core language feature, it seems to me that the most awkward part of the language is constructing an expression that represents a record with a single field modified: let set_field3 rec value = match rec with {field1=field1; field2=field2; field3=field3; field4=field4; field5=field5} -> {field1=field1; field2=field2; field3=value; field4=field4; field5=field5} is there any prettier way of doing this? ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners