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May 29, 2008 | 10 min read

The dangers of being too partial

This article deals with some not well-known dark corners of the OCaml compiler and how to get around them to produce more efficient code. The...

By: Pascal Zimmer
May 14, 2008 | 2 min read

Ensuring that a function is polymorphic

Here’s a little trick that I find useful when I get a type error due to a function that I believe is polymorphic, but isn’t...

By: Stephen Weeks
May 11, 2008 | 4 min read

Core Principles: uniformity of interface

This is intended to be the first in a series of posts talking about the design principles behind core, Jane Street’s alternative to OCaml’s standard...

By: Yaron Minsky
May 02, 2008 | 1 min read

Core has landed

We are proud to announce the first public release of `core`, Jane Street's own alternative to OCaml's standard library. We use this library as the...

By: Yaron Minsky
Apr 25, 2008 | 2 min read

using with type on a variant type

Here’s a type-checking problem I ran into today. I had a module with a variant type matching a signature that exposed the variant type.

By: Stephen Weeks
Apr 16, 2008 | 1 min read

OCaml Annoyance #23: type declarations are implicitly recursive

Unlike let declarations, type declarations in OCaml are automatically recursive. This seems harmless at first, but it actually causes more trouble than it’s worth. To...

By: Yaron Minsky
Apr 02, 2008 | 2 min read

The ML sweet spot

I just got back from visiting Northeastern and Harvard where I yet again flogged a version of my POPL talk. Olin Shivers was my host...

By: Yaron Minsky
Mar 26, 2008 | 1 min read

Bind without tears

One of the annoyances of using monads in OCaml is that the syntax is awkward. You can see why if you look at a simple...

By: Yaron Minsky
Mar 20, 2008 | 1 min read

Variable-argument functions

Here’s another puzzle:

By: Stephen Weeks
Mar 15, 2008 | 8 min read

Typing RPCs

At Jane Street, we end up writing lots of messaging protocols, and many of these protocols end up being simple RPC-style protocols, *i.e.*, protocols with...

By: Yaron Minsky
Mar 14, 2008 | 1 min read

Using let module for matching

In OCaml, referring to constructors defined in other modules can be somewhat awkward. Suppose we have a module like the following.

By: Stephen Weeks
Mar 11, 2008 | 1 min read

Extracting an exception from a module

The Unix module defines the Unix_error exception constructor.

By: Stephen Weeks
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