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From: Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strange syntax error 
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:23:16PM -0600, Kurt Welgehausen wrote:
> > Is this a parsing bug?
> 
> See section 6.7 of the manual, 'pattern-matching ::=  ...'.
> 
> <when> is not mentioned in the definition of <pattern>
> (section 6.6); it's mentioned only in the definition
> of <expr> (section 6.7). Since an or-pattern is a
> <pattern>, it appears that it can have only one <when>
> clause.

Thanks to all who replied.  Yes, it was my misunderstanding of the
manual.

Rich.

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