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[Caml-list] question: "autoconfiguration" of Ocaml code (checking for libraries)

Basile STARYNKEVITCH
- Will Benton
  - Basile STARYNKEVITCH
    - Will Benton
    - Maxence Guesdon
      - Jean-Christophe Filliatre
      - Damien Doligez
- Gerd Stolpmann

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From:	Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] question: "autoconfiguration" of Ocaml code (checking for libraries)

On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Maxence Guesdon wrote:

>  let version = Sys.ocaml_version in
>  if float_of_string version < 3.06 then

Don't do that.  Sys.ocaml_version is not a floating-point number.
If it was, it would have type float instead of string.

This is much less likely to fail:

    if version < "3.06" then ...

-- Damien

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