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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Gabriel Kerneis <gabriel@kerneis.info>
Cc: Nicolas Ratier <nicolas.ratier@femto-st.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Case insensitive in type
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 10:43:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76B7BAE939614496917D59C84D90146B@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140702093037.GC4470@kerneis.info>

Le mercredi, 2 juillet 2014 à 10:30, Gabriel Kerneis a écrit :
> It will not help with pattern-matching, though. The following will fail:
>  
> match (term "plus" []) with
> | Term("Plus",[]) -> true
> | _ -> assert false
>  
> I don't think there is a way to work around this.
Yeah sure, the pattern matches you write have to follow the normalization. A work around is to make the string abstract and then check via a when clause.

match (term "plus" []) with  
| Term (f, []) when f = Term.name "Plus" -> true
| _ -> assert false

Daniel



      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-02  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02  8:34 Nicolas Ratier
2014-07-02  8:43 ` Daniel Bünzli
2014-07-02  9:30   ` Gabriel Kerneis
2014-07-02  9:43     ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]

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