Re: [Caml-list] "changing" immutable record elements

[Martin Jambon <martin_jambon@emailuser.net>]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, David Fox wrote:

> Unless I am missing some core language feature, it seems to me that the
> most awkward part of the language is constructing an expression that
> represents a record with a single field modified:
>
> let set_field3 rec value =
>    match rec with
>        {field1=field1; field2=field2; field3=field3; field4=field4;
> field5=field5} ->
>           {field1=field1; field2=field2; field3=value; field4=field4;
> field5=field5}
>
> is there any prettier way of doing this?

Yes!

let new_record = { old_record with field3 = value }

NB: you must specify at least one field:
let copy r = { r with some_field = r.some_field }


Martin


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