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"Warning U: this match case is unused." -- Yes, I know
- David Teller
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| From: | David Teller <David.Teller@u...> |
| Subject: | "Warning U: this match case is unused." -- Yes, I know |
Dear list, I'm currently working on a little Camlp4 extension which has to often generate pattern-matching clauses depending on user code -- and deal with match failures accordingly. Now, I guess 1. I can wrap the user's pattern-matching inside a try...with, catch any Match_failure and deal with it. However, ensuring that the Match_failure is the right one and that I'm not catching some other error in the code, all this while performing bindings satisfactorily will require numerous contorsions. 2. I can add a catch-all clause " _ -> deal_with_error ". While the semantics of this rewriting are exactly what I need, the compiler tends to print "Warning U: this match case is unused" whenever the user has already taken care of all cases. I would need to find a way to deactivate the warning for this specific clause. As I haven't found any way of doing that directly, I've been thinking about adding a "when True" to the second-to-last clause if that clause doesn't already have a "when", but I'd be glad to hear about better solutions. Thanks in advance, David -- David Teller Security of Distributed Systems http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations.