From: Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com>
To: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@mpi-sws.org>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Newbie comment on constructor syntax
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 18:33:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5640D8E0.6060102@lexifi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564076EA.7020805@mpi-sws.org>
On 09/11/2015 11:35, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
> Yes please, I would appreciate such sugar.
I've now submitted a cleaner implementation, working on both expressions
and patterns:
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/284
> Even more I would appreciate
> generalising that to allowing constructors to be used as first-class
> expressions (i.e., unapplied "C" -> "fun (x1,...,xN) -> C (x1,...,xN)"
> when C is a constructor with arity > 0). I had to write some AST mapping
> code recently that would have vastly benefited from that.
This is not covered (and now, it could simply be "fun x -> C x" :-)). I
don't see anything clever to be done on patterns for "unapplied
constructors", though.
Alain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-09 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-06 9:33 Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-06 10:04 ` Nicolas Ojeda Bar
2015-11-06 10:31 ` Francois Berenger
2015-11-06 12:20 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-06 12:34 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-11-06 13:09 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-06 14:10 ` Ashish Agarwal
2015-11-06 15:19 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-06 15:21 ` Ashish Agarwal
2015-11-21 17:24 ` [Caml-list] Notation for currying Hendrik Boom
2015-11-21 17:41 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-11-21 18:05 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2015-11-21 18:55 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-11-06 12:29 ` [Caml-list] Newbie comment on constructor syntax Jonas Jensen
2015-11-06 12:46 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-06 12:54 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-11-08 21:16 ` Florian Weimer
2015-11-08 22:50 ` Norman Hardy
2015-11-09 6:27 ` Florian Weimer
2015-11-09 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-09 8:09 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-09 10:00 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-11-09 10:16 ` Alain Frisch
2015-11-09 10:35 ` Andreas Rossberg
2015-11-09 12:28 ` Alain Frisch
2015-11-09 17:33 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2015-11-09 18:08 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-11-09 18:16 ` Andreas Rossberg
2015-11-09 21:11 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-11-09 22:06 ` Alain Frisch
2015-11-09 22:27 ` Andreas Rossberg
2015-11-09 22:57 ` Jeremy Yallop
2015-11-10 0:11 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-11-10 8:27 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-10 10:25 ` Romain Bardou
2015-11-10 10:44 ` Alain Frisch
2015-11-10 10:55 ` Romain Bardou
2015-11-10 13:17 ` Alain Frisch
2015-11-10 13:41 ` Romain Bardou
2015-11-10 14:01 ` Alain Frisch
2015-11-13 15:36 ` Romain Bardou
2015-11-10 11:17 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-10 14:11 ` Hendrik Boom
2015-11-10 14:40 ` immanuel litzroth
2015-11-10 15:30 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2015-11-10 17:27 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2015-11-09 20:32 ` Alain Frisch
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