Eric C. Cooper [Wednesday 10 September 2003] :
 >
 > I find that I am often writing code like
 >     { field1 = field1; field2 = field2; field3 = field3 }
 > when matching and constructing records.  I guess it's because thinking
 > up good names for the record fields is nontrivial and having similar
 > but different names for the bindings just bothers me.
 > 
 > How about allowing syntax like that used for labels:
 >     { ~field1; ~field2; ~field3 }
 > would expand into the above, in both pattern matching and construction
 > contexts.

I have a camlp4 extension that does exactly this (well, without 
the ~). Also, you can put the module path before the { instead of
having to repeat it for each field. So :

  Mod1.Mod2.{ field1; field2 } 

is expanded into

  { Mod1.Mod2.field1 = field1 ; Mod1.Mod2.field2 = field2 }

http://oandrieu.nerim.net/ocaml/index.xhtml#pa_records

-- 
   Olivier

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