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From: Nicolas barnier <barnier@recherche.enac.fr>
To: Caml list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Arg.spec and option types
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:56:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4602990B.6030406@recherche.enac.fr> (raw)

Hi list,

I find the recent addition of the Set_{string|int|float} constructors
of type Arg.spec quite useful, as it spares a lot of repeated code
for processing command line arguments. However, for optional arguments,
I often feel the need (and write the code) to handle option types,
which can elegantly be processed to trigger optional behaviours of a
program.

I think it would therefore be quite useful to add 
Set_option_{string|int|float}
constructors which would expect {string|int|float} option ref values as
arguments (usually initialized with None). Do others think the same or use
some other workaround to obtain this behaviour ?

-- Nicolas


             reply	other threads:[~2007-03-22 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-22 14:56 Nicolas barnier [this message]
2007-03-22 20:32 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-22 20:46   ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard

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