[Caml-list] "Or" patterns when both matchings

[Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com>]

from the documentation:
  The pattern pattern1 | pattern2 represents the logical ``or'' of the two
  patterns pattern1 and pattern2. [...] If both matchings succeed, it is
  undefined which set of bindings is selected.

is there a reason for not using the classical pattern matching rule, to make
the ordering matters? (i've been nastily beat by this :-/)

eg:


type foo = Bar | Foo of foo

let f1 = function
  | Foo(a) 
  | a -> a

let f2 = function
  | Foo(a) -> a
  | a -> a

let e1 = f1 (Foo Bar)  (*=> Foo Bar *)
let e2 = f2 (Foo Bar)  (*=> Bar *)


thanks
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Pixel
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