14:04 <Artimus> I'm working on converting an OCAML program to python. I was wondering if someone could explain what a short (3 line) function does? I think it just sets an argument as a global variable and throws an exception if it isn't given a proper argument...

14:05 <Artimus> let value_of_option x = match x with

14:05 <Artimus> | Some(s) -> s

14:05 <Artimus> | None -> failwith "value_of_option None"

14:05 <Artimus> (done)

14:05 <flux-> it does not set any global variables

14:05 <flux-> the parameter x can be of two kinds: either it's some value, or its nothing

14:06 <flux-> if it's some value, it extracts the value (the returned value can only be a value, not a 'maybe' value)

14:06 <flux-> it it's nothing, it throws an exception

14:06 <Artimus> oh, ok...

14:08 <flux-> it's a strange direction of porting I would say, though :-)

14:09 <Artimus> flux-: The problem is, maintaining this program has become a nightmare. The original author wrote it in OCAML and disappeared. Besides, our project is already using python in many other places. But I do find some aspects of the language interesting

14:11 <flux-> it's a shame that the non-c-languages don't interoperate nicely

14:11 <flux-> although ocaml actually has a quite nice perl-interface (disclaimer: I haven't actually used it)

14:12 <flux-> ocaml, haskeel, sml don't have a huge impedance mismatch and they should be possible to interoperate.. but instead the only way is to go the C-route

14:51 <flux-> hmh, socket option TCP_NODELAY apparently cannot be set with ocaml :(

15:18 <whatsup103> yoooooo