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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:45:20 -0500
From: Chris King <colanderman@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:17:19 -0600, Kurt Welgehausen <kwel@kwel.net> wrote:

> It's not clear whether you require a general polymorphic
> copy function or you just need to make a copy of a
> particular record.

Just the particular record.

> In the latter case, something like
> 
>   let y = {x with a = x.a}
> 
> will do what you want (even though it's not very pretty).

Yeah, that's what I thought of first; I was just hoping there was a
way to do it without the redundant assign (like {x} or something).