Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] ExtLib v0.2

[Blair Z. <bl...@or...>]

Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
> 
> Okay, so perhaps somethink like :
> 
> let val_of = function
>     | None -> failwith "val_of"
>     | Some x -> x
> 
> is what you need ?
> But since I think some people will still want to catch the exception and use
> try...with instead of an easier pattern matching ( perhaps catching the
> exception to an upper level can be useful sometimes ), I would prefer :
> 
> exception ValNone
> 
> let val_of = function
>     | None -> raise ValNone
>     | Some x -> x

Sounds good to me.  So this way if you see a ValNone exception, you
know that you're not handling something that should be handled.

Best,
Blair

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