On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Tyler Eaves wrote:

> >      match foo with
> >      | None -> print_endline "Nothing"; ""
> >      | Some x -> print_endline x; x
> 
> If I understand the match syntax correctly, in this case, x takes the 
> value of foo?

Not quite. foo can have a value of either None or Some s, where s is an
arbitrary string. So if foo has a value of Some "abcde", then x =
"abcde". Foo, by the way, has a type of string option.

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