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

[Virgile Prevosto <prevosto@mpi-sb.mpg.de>]

Le vendredi 14 mai, à  8h50 -0700,
David Fox a écrit:

> 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 set_field_3 my_rec v = {my_rec with field3=v} 
(cf http://pauillac.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual015.html, section
6.7.3)

By the way, rec and value are keywords in ocaml. you might run
into trouble if you try to use them as identifiers ;-)


-- 
E tutto per oggi, a la prossima volta
Virgile

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