Here is one fellow’s feedback on OCaml. It is balanced and seems useful, especially given that he links to his philosophy on languages, which appears to be a healthy one.
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What is the defacto OCaml build tool?
Sunday, April 4, 2010
I had wondered: What is the defacto OCaml build tool? to which Sylvain replied: – ocamlbuild (in OCaml distribution) – OCamlMakefile Some other use OMake.
What is the defacto OCaml unit testing tool?
Sunday, April 4, 2010
I had wanted to know: What is the defacto OCaml unit testing tool? Sylvain replied: -OUnit
Running Ocamlbrowser with OCaml 3.11.2 on Cygwin 1.72
Saturday, April 3, 2010
After building OCaml 3.11.2 from source on Cygwin 1.72 I tried running ocamlbrowser and got the error: Fatal error: exception Protocol.TkError("Can’t find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: C:/cygwin/share/tcl8.4 C:/cygwin/home/rettkeg/ocaml/build/ocaml-3.11.2/share/tcl8.4 C:/cygwin/home/rettkeg/ocaml/build/ocaml-3.11.2/usr/share/tcl8.4 C:/cygwin/home/rettkeg/o The solution is can be found here: export TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/share/tcl8.4
Is it “poor taste” to include type information in function definitions?
Saturday, April 3, 2010
I had wondered: Is it “poor taste” to include type information in function definitions? It seems like very nice documentation, but then again, maybe it is nicer rely on the inferencing engine to reduce the amount of code? In theory you write short, easy to understand functions; in practice it isn’t always this simple though. [...]
An Identity Function in OCaml
Saturday, April 3, 2010
I didn’t find one in Pervasives, and having read this thread I see why and that there probably is not one. However, I wanted to do something like initialize an array of (0..9) and figured that identity is more convenient than (fun i -> i). Raphael explained that it can be found here in Batteries [...]
“The Whitespace Thing” for OCaml
Sunday, March 28, 2010
The ‘“The Whitespace Thing” for OCaml‘ is is an alternative syntax for OCaml that uses indentation to group multi-line expressions Although I am not to the point where I could like or dislike something like this yet, I wonder how long time OCaml users feel about it?
OUnit
Friday, January 22, 2010
Via the homepage: OUnit is a unit test framework for OCaml. It allows one to easily create unit-tests for OCaml code. It is based on HUnit, a unit testing framework for Haskell. It is similar to JUnit, and other XUnit testing frameworks.
Ocaml Batteries Included 1.0.0 Released
Saturday, January 16, 2010
The Batteries Included project has come under new management since David Teller moved on. The project has gone through a process of reorganization and is finally ready for a release. We’ve rethought a lot of the structure decisions of the old codebase to make it easier to use and develop. (via Caml-list)
OCaml Recommended Reading
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Geoff recommended the following books for getting started with OCaml via this comment: Introduction to Objective Caml by Jason Hickey Developing Applications With Objective Caml by Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal Manoury and Bruno Pagano OCaml for Scientists by Dr. Jon D. Harrop