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From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@mpi-sws.org>
To: Create Software <createsoftware@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Pattern-matching on Ocaml records
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 14:44:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA8A0236-992B-47FC-92B7-66B428E1E882@mpi-sws.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DBEA464.7090102@users.sourceforge.net>

On May 2, 2011, at 14:32, Create Software wrote:
> PS: I also tried
>
>  let reset' a =
>    let lbl = a.label in
>    lbl <- 0
>  ;;
>
> but "The identifier lbl is not mutable.", in both OCaml and Caml  
> Light. Why so?

Try:

   a.lbl <- 0

Only the record field itself is mutable. Extracting only gives you a  
value, not a reference.

/Andreas


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-02 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-02 12:32 Create Software
2011-05-02 12:44 ` Andreas Rossberg [this message]
2011-05-02 13:16   ` Create Software
2011-05-02 13:24     ` Andreas Rossberg
2011-05-02 13:33     ` Jacques Garrigue

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