On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:48:56AM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote:
> Possibly stupid question: what use would this function be?

I've had to define an identity function from time to time.  Most
recently I wanted to define a function for printing labels on charts:

let plot ?(labels = identity) data =
  (* ... *)

Called as:

plot ~labels:string_of_int data

if the label was an int instead of the default string.  There was a
thread on this on ocaml-beginners I think.

Rich.

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