From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00267BB91 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:17:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from redirect4.airmail.net (redirect4.airmail.net [209.196.123.153]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0MEHQBu016238 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:17:27 +0100 Received: from host-216-39-197-219.mylinuxisp.com ([216.39.197.219] helo=welgehausen.net) by redirect4.airmail.net with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1CsMA6-0000Rg-Lw for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:22:51 -0600 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:17:19 -0600 From: Kurt Welgehausen To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Shallow copy of a record Message-ID: <41F2606F.mail1PL1TYIX5@kwel.net> References: <875c7e0705012120277c090ec8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <875c7e0705012120277c090ec8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: nail 10.4 1/19/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41F26076.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 polymorphic:01 latter:03 let:03 function:08 kurt:10 though:11 something:12 case:13 particular:13 record:15 record:15 clear:18 regards:19 whether:19 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: It's not clear whether you require a general polymorphic copy function or you just need to make a copy of a particular record. In the latter case, something like let y = {x with a = x.a} will do what you want (even though it's not very pretty). Best regards