Re: [Caml-list] OCaml wishlist

[Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:29:21PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> After writing a fair bit of OCaml in commercial situations (although
> I'm by no means an expert, and really should learn camlp4), here's my
> wishlist:
> 
> 1. 'return' from a function. eg:
> 
>   let foo x =
>     if x < 0 then return "OSL";
>     (* long & complex code *)
>     return "some other string"
> 
>   I know I can do this using if ... else, but when you have multiple
>   levels of if ... else you end up being indented so far across the
>   screen as to make coding unpleasant. 

You can try guarded patterns. I have to admit that OCaml makes
imperative programming somewhat harder then it strictly have to. This is
however religious issue.

> 2. abstract data type syntactic sugar:
>    obj#call		      [	or:   obj->call ]
> 
>    is exactly equivalent to:
> 
>    M.call obj

let f a b c = a->add b c

What type does f have? 

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