Re: [Caml-list] Request for complete pattern matching

[Christophe Raffalli <christophe.raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>]

sejourne_kevin a écrit :
> Christophe Raffalli a écrit :
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>> - Lazy constructor and function can not be matched ... and this is 
>> ennoying
>>
>> I saw a post recently about lazy constructor and I can not write the
>> camlp4 extension I want because of the second limitation ...
>>
>> It may be not clear what I mean by matching a function (looks impossible
>> ;-). I mean something like
>>
>> pattern <= expr expr expr       is a pattern
>>
>> and a function f is matched by
>>
>> p <= e1 ... eN      iff     f e1 ... eN is matched by p
>>
>> (I do not care about the final syntax ...)
>>
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> You want something like that ?
> 
> let f = function
>       (x,y,z) when f x y z -> ...
>     | (x,y,z) when g x y z -> ...
>     | all_other_cases -> (static/compile_time)_error ...
> 

No this is not a problem of test. I want to be able to write

match e with
   (0 <= 0, g) -> g
| (f, 0 <= 0) -> f
| (f, g) -> fun x -> f x + g x

which means the same as

match e with
   (f, g) ->
   if f 0 = 0 then g else if g 0 = 0 then f else fun x -> f x + g x

- The first problem is that removing this feature is a hard translation, 
and I would like the compiler to do it

- The second problem is that I really need it to extend the pattern 
matching of ocaml using camlp4

Let us do a simple example (this is not what I am doing):

type 'a lazy = unit -> 'a

Lazy(e) := fun () ->  e (defined as a camlp4 macro to be sure that e is 
not evaluated)

and then

"Lazy(p)" in a pattern means "p <= ()" (this should also be a camlp4 
macro, but p <= () does not exist in the language)





> Should be hard to eval f and g before execution...
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