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From: Gabriel Kerneis <kerneis@p...>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Option functions (or lack thereof) + operator for composition 
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:43:30PM +0100, Thomas Gazagnaire wrote:
> 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 ...

Or even simpler:
  let is_none = (=) None
  let is_some = (!=) None
Note that you can use this directly, for instance:
  List.filter ((!=) None) l

Best,
-- 
Gabriel