ppx_pattern_guardversion
ppx_pattern_guard: ppx extension for pattern guard
Pattern guards in OCaml
This ppx adds (pattern guards)[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/erwig00pattern.html] to OCaml. This is inspired by (ocaml-patterns)[http://code.google.com/p/ocaml-patterns/wiki/PatternGuards], an old CamlP4 extension for pattern guards, but is an independent implementation.
Pattern guard `]>guards< guard%[ when
Pattern guard is an extension of OCaml guard (or boolean guard) when e
in match
, function
and try
cases.
(Do not be confused with guards (boolean guards) and pattern guards.)
While when e
only takes a boolean expression e
to have an additional test
to a case, when [%guard let p = e]
can take a pattern match: if e
's value matches
with the pattern p
, the case is selected, and the variables
in the pattern p
are bound in the case action, the right hand side of ->
.
If the value does not match, the case is skipped.
In [%guard <guards>]
, pattern guards (let p = e
) and boolean guards (e
) can be sequenced like [%guard let y = f x;; p(y)]
.
They are tested in their appearence order. The bound variables
in pattern guards can be used in the later pattern guards and boolean guards,
in addition to the case action.
Example
match e with
| (x, y) when [%guard let w = x + y;; w = 5] -> prerr_endline "3"
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Maintainer | jun.furuse@gmail.com |
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Source [http] | https://github.com/ocaml/opam-source-archives/raw/main/ppx_pattern_guard-1.0.1.tar.gz sha256=0ef2e2ef1cfe413d9c08067efb4fbe28d0585700215c4117d9bc0d2a03532f5e md5=6e2902dfa2fe8d0e7ccaebba9ce867b6 |
Edit | https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/tree/master/packages/ppx_pattern_guard/ppx_pattern_guard.1.0.1/opam |