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X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml's:01 edgar:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 library:03 library:03 erik:04 erik:04 long:06 standard:07 probably:07 written:07 quite:08 

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Mike Lin wrote:
> 
>> Ditto,
>> Due to the sparsity of OCaml's standard library, many long term users
>> probably have their own library to do all sorts of little things they need,
>> and substantial amounts of code written around it. :-(
> 
> Double ditto. I have quite a large amount of stuff sitting on top of
> extlib/str/unix.
> 
> Erik
Would you consider donating any of it to batteries?

E