This topic has been discussed to death already. If you want a more
comprehensive library, help make it happen. The batteries project would
certainly be happy to accept your patches for functions such as erf, erfc,
gamma etc. It already has some of the features you requests (eg. a pi
constant).

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Christophe Papazian <
christophe.papazian@gmail.com> wrote:

> Selling cars without tires !
>
> This is a huge problem of the ocaml community. Who wants a minimal library
> ?
> What makes other languages popular ? There are huge API.
> For Ocaml, the main web site is just for the compiler, the ocaml hump is
> refreshed
> each month with few new things. So I need to use as well godi (another web
> site),
> batteries (still in progress, another web site), janestreet (another
> solution, another
> web site). Everybody is making is own api, which is not very interesting
> for the end user.
>
> When I use python or latex, eveything is centralized, I pick the packages I
> need, and all is done.
> Ocaml situation would be understandable if this was something new, but
> after 15 years, it's just
> the french way : "We have good ideas, but we don't care how to sell them".
> And this must be a reason why ocaml community is still small.
>
>        Christophe
>
>
>
>
>
> Le 30 mars 11 à 14:57, Dawid Toton a écrit :
>
>
>
>>  It would be so good if some missing operations on numbers could be
>>> added to the standard set : (...)
>>> The lack of those functions gives a feeling of immaturity of the
>>> language.
>>> Is it possible in some near futur release to add them ?
>>>
>> This is a matter of libraries, not the language. The standard library
>> coming with raw ocaml distribution is intended to be lightweight and
>> minimal. It is a library like core[1] or batteries[2] that should
>> provide the "standard set" of operations. You can consider filling a
>> feature request ticket.
>>
>> Dawid
>>
>> [1] http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/13
>> [2] http://batteries.forge.ocamlcore.org/
>>
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