]> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:29:21PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > After writing a fair bit of OCaml in commercial situations (although > I'm by no means an expert, and really should learn camlp4), here's my > wishlist: > > 1. 'return' from a function. eg: > > let foo x = > if x < 0 then return "OSL"; > (* long & complex code *) > return "some other string" > > I know I can do this using if ... else, but when you have multiple > levels of if ... else you end up being indented so far across the > screen as to make coding unpleasant. You can try guarded patterns. I have to admit that OCaml makes imperative programming somewhat harder then it strictly have to. This is however religious issue. > 2. abstract data type syntactic sugar: > obj#call [ or: obj->call ] > > is exactly equivalent to: > > M.call obj let f a b c = a->add b c What type does f have? -- : Michal Moskal :: http://www.kernel.pl/~malekith : GCS {C,UL}++++$ a? !tv : When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson : {E-,w}-- {b++,e}>+++ h ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners