Re: [Caml-list] Nicely written Caml/OCaml code to read.

[Denis Berthod <denis.berthod@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Some years ago, when I was a student, I found the code of Gérôme 
Vouillon's LWT library enlightning (LWT is now part of the Ocsigen project).
Even if a great part of the concepts are OCaml only I recall that there 
is a Fibonacci heap implementation that might be a good example of list 
manipulation.

Cheers,

Denis

Le 13/04/2011 22:40, Create Software a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I'll be taking exams at the end of the year (starting in a week, 
> actually), which include programming / informatics tests. The language 
> used in these exams is Caml Light (you guessed right: grandes écoles).
>
> I've done a lot of programming in previous years, but I didn't know 
> Caml/OCaml before high school -- I come from a mixed C++/C# world, 
> with drops of Python here and there.
>
> In developing my skill in other languages, I always found that reading 
> good code at some point was a great boost to the beauty and cleanness 
> of the programs I wrote. Usually, every language has it's own 
> conventions, best practices, and I think you can usually learn a lot 
> by reading well-written, nicely-crafted code.
>
> So here's my question: **which code would you recommend to read?**
>
> (As a side note, I'm not really interested (at least in the very short 
> term) in anything on the object-oriented side of the language, since 
> the notions used at the exam are limited to the elements available in 
> Caml Light.)
>
> I've tried batteries and Jane street core/ext-core libraries, but the 
> former has extremely few comments, and the latter is too widely 
> optimized to be enjoyable to read (Jane street's map function is 30 
> lines long due to loop unrolling).
>
> Anything that deals with trees or finite state automata gets extra 
> brownie points =) (and +2 if Gabriel Scherer answers)
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Clément.
>