Re: if expression and match expression

On 9 October 2015 at 14:56, Hendrik Boom [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:
> So you'd recommend something like
>
> let rec has_element2 l e =
> match l with
> | [] -> false
> | h::t -> h = e or has_element2 (List.tl l) e
> ;;

List.tl should usually be avoided, too, since it fails on empty lists.
It's better to use the variable that's bound to the tail of the list
by pattern matching.