Re: [Caml-list] record update-apply

[Nick Lucaroni <nicholas.r.lucaroni@gmail.com>]

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This is really the update function of a lens. Anil has taken a part of a
project that had contained a lens package into its own library,
https://github.com/avsm/ocaml-lens . Although a ppx library with lenses
would be most appropriate (since this is all still manual).



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Nicholas Lucaroni

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Christoph Höger <
christoph.hoeger@tu-berlin.de> wrote:

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> Dear all,
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> I often find myself writing code like this
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> {foo with bar = f foo.bar}
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> and would like to avoid the redundancy of typing 'bar'. So it would be
> very convenient to have an applied-to operator:
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> {foo with bar <- f}
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> This would only need one additional syntactic sort at the very first
> stage, since the operator can immediately be de-sugared into the
> already-existing with-form.
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> What do you think?
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