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From: Lukasz Stafiniak <lukstafi@gmail.com>
To: Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp>
Cc: Caml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] new user - old questions
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:24:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJMfKEXdjO9pbtBKBNrhyFAO3s9O=+Nc4KwtEiR1_Y=rNAHbRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50D90562.90501@riken.jp>

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Francois Berenger <berenger@riken.jp> wrote:
> On 12/25/2012 02:59 AM, Siraaj Khandkar wrote:
>
> There is also this quite thorough book:
> "Developing Applications With Objective Caml"
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html
>
> I just wish the book would have some example of an Error monad.
> I mean, something advanced you don't find in a lot of other languages.

For some less run-of-the-mill introductory material, you can have a look at:
http://www.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~lukstafi/pmwiki/index.php?n=Functional.Functional
But (related to discussion on Google+) an Error monad transformer
rather than a standalone monad, would be more useful in OCaml. For
example, the Lwt monad is also an Error monad that captures the
built-in exceptions.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-25 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-24  9:36 Gour
2012-12-24 12:38 ` Malcolm Matalka
2012-12-24 15:21   ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2012-12-24 17:59   ` [Caml-list] " Siraaj Khandkar
2012-12-24 20:07     ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2012-12-25  1:46     ` [Caml-list] " Francois Berenger
2012-12-25  7:21       ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2012-12-25  9:01         ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-12-25  9:57           ` Gour
2012-12-25 10:16             ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-12-25 15:28               ` Gour
2012-12-25 13:24       ` Lukasz Stafiniak [this message]
2012-12-24 17:04 ` [Caml-list] " Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-12-24 20:08   ` [Caml-list] " Gour
2012-12-26  8:39 ` [Caml-list] " rixed
2012-12-27  3:37   ` Martin DeMello
2013-04-05 20:14 ` Lukasz Stafiniak

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