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From: Alain Frisch <Alain.Frisch@inria.fr>
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Cc: louis.gesbert@laposte.net, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Bugs with pattern-matching and exceptions
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:00:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4405469F.9030409@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060301.090307.21363387.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> This is fixed in 3.09.
> 
> # exception E' = E;;
> # match E with E' -> true | _ -> false;;
> - : bool = true

This worked also in 3.08 and is not what Louis complained about
("exception E;; exception E'=E;; exception E;; E=E'" returning true).
I think there is and was really no bug in the pattern matching, just a 
weird behavior of the generic comparison function on exception values.

-- Alain


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-01  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-28 12:29 Louis Gesbert
2006-02-28 15:51 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2006-03-01  0:03 ` Jacques Garrigue
2006-03-01  7:00   ` Alain Frisch [this message]
     [not found] ` <200602281333.52448.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
2006-03-01 11:10   ` Louis Gesbert
2006-03-01 23:07 Louis Gesbert
2006-03-02  6:47 ` Alain Frisch
2006-03-03  9:02   ` Louis Gesbert

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