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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: Nicolas Ratier <nicolas.ratier@femto-st.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Case insensitive in type
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 09:43:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <61DE677B8B2B47D8802464F092A13EC2@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B3C402.8070001@femto-st.fr>

Le mercredi, 2 juillet 2014 à 09:34, Nicolas Ratier a écrit :
> I would like the string of the Term constructor not to be case sensitive,
> for example, all the following terms should be the same :

[...]  
> Is it possible ?

The only way to do this is to make the type private and always construct term values through a constructor which normalizes the strings.  

type term = private Term of string * term list
let term s args = Term ((String.lowercase s), args)  

Best,

Daniel



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-02  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02  8:34 Nicolas Ratier
2014-07-02  8:43 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2014-07-02  9:30   ` Gabriel Kerneis
2014-07-02  9:43     ` Daniel Bünzli

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