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

[Denis Berthod <denis.berthod@lexifi.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.
>