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Comment by zem | Hacker News Reader

i noticed this in the examples:

    | List p (List p2 (List p3 rest)) => false  /* 3+ */

has the regular list destructuring in pattern match syntax been removed? that's pretty sad, if so - lists are the default data structure in ocaml, and it's worth retaining some special syntax for cons especially in pattern matches.

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For me the odd bit is that they called the constructor List instead of Cons.

Thanks for the feedback. We can change it to `Cons`, but I was assuming that anyone who knew what `Cons` was, would know what `List` meant, but not everyone who understood what `List` meant, would know/recall what `Cons` meant.

No, the sugar's still there.

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