Re: Syntax for label

From: Pierre Weis (Pierre.Weis@inria.fr)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 19:05:22 MET

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    > And why not "as", i.e. "t as x", as I explained once in a previous post.
    > I never did get an explanation as to why this wasn't an better solution. It
    > reuses a rarely-used keyword in a perfectly backward-compatible way.

    This is not backward-compatible since ident1 as ident2 is a special
    case of pattern as ident. Hence ident1 as ident2 already has a
    meaning in Caml: it means that you want to write ident2 as an alias
    for ident1.

    Best regards, 

    -- 
Pierre Weis

    INRIA, Projet Cristal, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis

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