Hi,

> I found it weird to be forced to use "match" expressions in my code
for
> doing that, e.g.:
> *  let curSelectedRow = ref None in
> *  let updateButtonsStatus () =
> *      button_remove#misc#set_sensitive
> *              (match !curSelectedRow with None -> false | _ -> true)
> *  in
> *  ...
> 

You are not forced to use match expression, you can just define :
let is_none x = match x with None -> true | Some _ -> false
and is_some x = not (is_none x)
and then use these functions in your code ...

> In Haskell, I would write "ignore $ f x y", which I find much lighter
weight.

Just define:
let ($) f x = f x
and that should do the trick

Thomas