Gabriel mentioned the rope data structure. That would allow you to create giant strings, I guess. There are several implementations in OCaml. ...
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Gabriel Scherer
ga_sche
Feb 21, 2013 8:49 am
Ropes are indeed a reasonable choice for long strings. Another solution is to use Bigarray ( ...
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Marek Kubica
pymastr
Feb 21, 2013 9:43 pm
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:59:43 +0800 ... Well, not really cleanly but Batteries has some kind-of-solution, check out the "dump" function there. regards, Marek...
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 22, 2013 5:55 am
Hello, in Perl there is 'x' binary operator which replicates its left operand string: " sergei@amdam2:~/junk> perl -e 'print "foo" x 3, "\n"' foofoofoo ". I...
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Francois Berenger
f_berenger
Feb 22, 2013 6:21 am
... open Printf let v = "foo" in printf "%s%s%s\n" v v v; ... More seriously, for more string fun, you can have a look in the Str module from the stdlib, the...
Thanks. Is the batteries library compatible with standard libraries ? I.e. will some standard library functions be overridden, or the batteries do no export...
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Sébastien Dailly
s_dailly
Feb 22, 2013 8:56 am
... Yes, it's even recommended to add batteries in your project library ! ... Depends, when you'r opening the batteries module, it will overide some standard...
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Jason Yeo
goosebumpsov...
Feb 23, 2013 8:35 am
Hi, ... What's the difference between sexplib and camlp4? They both seem to be libraries that do some form of meta-programming right? Thanks, Jason...
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Gabriel Scherer
ga_sche
Feb 23, 2013 1:18 pm
They are rather different. Camlp4 is a tool/library to write syntactic preprocessors: you use Camlp4 to develop "camlp4 extensions", which are small programs...
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Francois Berenger
f_berenger
Feb 25, 2013 12:50 am
... Come on, use OPAM (kind of aptitude for OCaml-related things) ! That's the modern way of installing OCaml software and libraries: ...
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 25, 2013 1:01 am
... [snip] ... [snip] I have my own AppsFromScratch written Perl using which I build about 400+ targets now, including OCaml itself and some packages using it,...
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 25, 2013 1:12 am
Hello, here is a short interactive session: " sergei@amdam2:~/ocaml_work/plds> /mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20121021/rlwrap-0.37/binsh/rlwrap...
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Francois Berenger
f_berenger
Feb 25, 2013 1:13 am
... I completely understand this. And, OPAM supports this via the option -r ROOT, --root=ROOT Use ROOT as the current root path. This is equivalent to setting...
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Francois Berenger
f_berenger
Feb 25, 2013 1:14 am
... I think it is "type annotation"....
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 25, 2013 1:23 am
... [snip] ... No, I do not check cryptographic signatures - I am too lazy for implementing this, though it should be simple. I am not much worried because I...
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oliver
oliver@...
Feb 25, 2013 1:37 am
... If you wish something to be added / changed in OCaml distribution, you can create an item in the Bugtracker as a feature wish. It may take a while, but if...
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Ashish Agarwal
ashish_a1975
Feb 25, 2013 1:46 am
You may want to read starting here: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/book-ora015.html#toc12 ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 25, 2013 6:09 am
... Thanks to all who responded - now I know that it is of "type constraints" and "type annotation" categories/search phrases :). Regards, Sergei....
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 25, 2013 6:21 am
Hello, I know OCaml is strictly typed, so, on one hand, I am not surprised to see " # 1 == 2.0;; Error: This expression has type float but an expression was...
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Francois Berenger
f_berenger
Feb 25, 2013 6:35 am
... This type error is a compile-time error. I.e.: OCaml tells you that your program is wrong when looking at its types (even before you run the program). You...
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 25, 2013 6:44 am
... I do not think I am suggesting to break type safety. In "C" terms I am saying/suggesting more or less the following: if we have a union (variant type in...
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 25, 2013 6:53 am
... Or, in one sentence: apples and oranges are always different :). Regards, Sergei....
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Lukasz Stafiniak
luk_stafi
Feb 25, 2013 7:10 am
... Not so in OCaml, which has type erasure. "None" and "0" are the same. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Sébastien Dailly
s_dailly
Feb 25, 2013 8:57 am
... I did not succed to compile Opam nor install opam in cygwin, so I continue with plain old method wich consist of compiling the package I need manually. ...
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Francois Berenger
f_berenger
Feb 25, 2013 9:01 am
... If you have the freedom to do so, why not move away from Windows for your OCaml project(s)? ... But I'm quite sure OPAM compiles fine on Debian. It does on...
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Sébastien Dailly
s_dailly
Feb 25, 2013 9:19 am
... This is what I did at home, but I still need Windows at work, and I'm not free for that… ... I confirm, Opam works fine on Debian, and is definitively...
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Ashish Agarwal
ashish_a1975
Feb 25, 2013 12:36 pm
... Firstly, you should use = (single equal), not == (double equal). ... That would violate the point of a strong type discipline. Take a more extreme example:...
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Sergei Steshenko
sergstesh
Feb 25, 2013 12:46 pm
... If you actually meant 1 == "hello" , yes, I want the answer to be 'false'. Furthermore, even in cases of 1 == 1.0 (* no type coercion !) 0 == 0.0 (* no...
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Ashish Agarwal
ashish_a1975
Feb 25, 2013 1:02 pm
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh@...>wrote: ** ... Yes, but this is not analogous, int_1 and float_1 are of the same type, as...
