Would it solve your problem to instead write: match !x with | y -> ... On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Yotam Barnoy wrote: > I recently found out how ugly it is to pattern-match on a ref, using > {contents=...}. This should be extremely easy to fix in the parser. Can it > please be put into the next version of ocaml? > ie. > > match x with > | ref y -> ... > > -Yotam >