From: "Yaron Minsky" <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu>
To: "Olivier Andrieu" <oandrieu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yitzhak Mandelbaum" <yitzhak@research.att.com>,
caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "opening" record types
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:19:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd3390708211519r14ed1c58rb7b3a8e426d1216a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95513600708210634q236768efjbfda6cd844e498c1@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/21/07, Olivier Andrieu <oandrieu@gmail.com> wrote:
> actually, you can write
> let y = {Foo.a=3; b=4}
>
> i.e. you only need the module name on one field of the record, not all
Indeed, at Jane Street, we've come to favor the following idiom:
let y = { Module_name.
field1 = val1;
field2 = val2;
...
}
The module name then works almost like a constructor, so you hardly need the
syntax extension discussed elsewhere in this thread.
y
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 13:18 Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2007-08-21 13:34 ` [Caml-list] " Olivier Andrieu
2007-08-21 22:19 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2007-08-21 13:42 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-08-21 13:55 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2007-08-21 13:47 ` Virgile Prevosto
2007-08-22 16:32 ` Philippe Wang
2007-08-22 19:24 ` Jeremy Yallop
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