Re: [Caml-list] Good introduction for the working programmer in Objective CAML

Re: [Caml-list] Good introduction for the working programmer in Objective CAML

[Arturo Borquez]

On Mon, 18 June 2001, "Mattias Waldau" wrote:

> 
> Someone on this list pointed to
> 
> www.cs.caltech.edu/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf
> 
Also see the parent directory there are some exercises
suited for newbies.

www.cs.caltech.edu/cs134/cs134b/

Best Regards
Arturo


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Re: [Caml-list] Newbie: declarations

[Remi VANICAT]

leary@nwlink.com writes:

> On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:08:28PM +0400, Vitaly Lugovsky wrote:
> >  It's an almost functional language, so please avoid variables. And use
> > references only when you really need 'em. Refer to the Guide about
> > references and named tuples.
> 
> Here's what I'm doing now (comments welcome; yes, I have short cryptic
> names).  I'm writing a robot for RealTimeBattle, and want to have access to
> information that isn't contained in every message the robot gets (and I'm
> not using threads or signals yet, fwiw).  This information is updated all
> the time.  (I'll post a link to the whole thing for criticism, once it
> actually does something interesting. :)

[...]


> let data : datarec = {

the type annotation is not mandatory :
let data =
is enough

[...]


> 
> let initialize i = match i with
> 	1 -> name "Bob"; color "00FF00 FF0000";
> 		debug "initialize 1\n";
> 	| 0 -> 
> 		data.name <- "bob";

[...]

it may be better to have two function : one to initialize the robot,
the other to make the other stuff.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
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[Caml-list] Good introduction for the working programmer in Objective CAML

[Mattias Waldau]

Someone on this list pointed to

www.cs.caltech.edu/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf

I read it and it is actually the best english introduction to 
Ocaml I seen sofar.

Short, concise and doesn't try to explain functional programming 
so much, it just focuses on getting you up and running.

I think there should be a link on the first page of www.ocaml.org 
recommending it.

/mattias waldau

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Re: [Caml-list] Good introduction for the working programmer in Objective CAML

[Miles Egan]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:19:36PM +0200, Mattias Waldau wrote:
> Someone on this list pointed to
> 
> www.cs.caltech.edu/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf
> 
> I read it and it is actually the best english introduction to 
> Ocaml I seen sofar.

This is an excellent introduction.  I had no idea it existed.  I'm mailing
the link to all the programmers in our department right now...

-- 
miles
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Re: [Caml-list] Good introduction for the working programmer in Objective CAML

[leary]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:19:36PM +0200, Mattias Waldau wrote:
> www.cs.caltech.edu/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf
> I think there should be a link on the first page of www.ocaml.org 
> recommending it.

Yes!

And may I suggest that the ocaml.org web page be reorganized a bit?  It's
always seemed a bit confusing and disorganized to me.  Should I write up a
new version for comparison?  Suggestions?

note: I have zero power to change the actual page :)

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