From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56092BC69 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:16:37 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAGOAFEfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACOTgEBAQgKKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,284,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3112210" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 16 Oct 2007 18:16:37 +0200 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9GGGaZm018401 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:16:37 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAANqAFEcjCUuCh2dsb2JhbACOTgEBAQgKKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,284,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3061822" Received: from sys30.mail.msu.edu ([35.9.75.130]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 16 Oct 2007 18:16:35 +0200 Received: from c-67-162-221-73.hsd1.mi.comcast.net ([67.162.221.73] helo=[192.168.1.4]) by sys30.mail.msu.edu with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1Ihp5u-0005mL-C9 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:16:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4714E3D2.4080404@msu.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:16:18 -0400 From: Jeff Shaw User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Pattern-matching destructors ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4714E3E4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; int:01 int:01 string:02 let:03 matching:05 destructors:07 function:08 i'm:09 instance:10 type:14 but:14 edu:15 test:15 record:17 omit:17 If you're matching against a record, you can omit the values you don't care about. For instance: type test = {a : int; b : int} let testfun = function {a=x; b= y} when x=y -> "same" | {a=x} -> ("a is " ^ string_of_int x);; I'm not sure if this helps you but it's the first thing I thought off.