From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_POST, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA755BC37 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:38:39 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkcCAI/Fn0rRVdLLkGdsb2JhbACCJy+PLYh8PwEBAQEJCQwHEwOuEYEnkCgBAwIEhBcFgkk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,327,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="45980744" Received: from mail-yx0-f203.google.com ([209.85.210.203]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 Sep 2009 22:38:39 +0200 Received: by yxe41 with SMTP id 41so1592058yxe.27 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:38:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=9y303TuFBJRzenDc3s7yrKeFIiCP712MyMpuIxJ7NgE=; b=V2OvuWzb/YnYiI8rhcigVwRi2Z1Lnu2ogrGHWvFbeJNsDLU+EFQprG6tV8T7RidUl6 W5LbM8hTpAKmgGLstsOEyrxkQGIDepE3zXOexgVCvBXojBCi4PMI90wH/lrymkF7/Ym4 pq7xltd29sYBEEEg5sn2IXMy1apTlkVUE6pvY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=LhPrwLBhwIM3OH4Yqmxnyj0MbBgTvOyx1UQqiYmspHwSAIV+J0vo7iQ5Z8p90GXcn2 u5rd59fw4C0hNEMW8OruogSR/NfpV6ChKbwycHKhL/U+AI5dxyBf/fELsolv5308vtlG 0awFOOilBnaT4sLJNHcpW7ohHIulfiFoic2PI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.183.4 with SMTP id k4mr7514322agp.41.1252010318140; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:38:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4A9FBF04.1060608@gmail.com> From: Ashish Agarwal Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:38:18 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries? To: Alp Mestan Cc: Edgar Friendly , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e64655244494730472b25e22 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 wiki:01 wiki:01 ocaml:01 1975:98 2009:98 2009:98 1975:98 blog:98 blog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 caml:02 caml:02 --0016e64655244494730472b25e22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Great! I did not know this book was going to employ Batteries. That is a great step towards making Batteries the standard library. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Alp Mestan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Ashish Agarwal wrote: > >> - Core language features are altered. For example, the Batteries way is to >> use input's instead of in_channel's. Documentation explaining such changes >> would help. The API documentation is excellent, but what is missing is a >> book on "An Introduction to OCaml with Batteries". Perhaps a well planned >> wiki would help get this started. >> > > There's a French version : http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Objective_Caml > for which a translation had been started : > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Objective_Caml but it isn't up-to-date at > all, nor finished. > > Still, the missing thing is time... > > > -- > Alp Mestan > http://blog.mestan.fr/ > http://alp.developpez.com/ > --0016e64655244494730472b25e22 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Great! I did not know this book was going to employ Batteries. That is a gr= eat step towards making Batteries the standard library.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Alp Mestan <alp@mestan.fr> wrote:=
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.co= m> wrote:
- Core language features are altered. For example, the Batteries way i= s to use input's instead of in_channel's. Documentation explaining = such changes would help. The API documentation is excellent, but what is mi= ssing is a book on "An Introduction to OCaml with Batteries". Per= haps a well planned wiki would help get this started.

There's a French version : http://fr.wikibo= oks.org/wiki/Objective_Caml
for which a translation had been started= : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Objective_Caml but it isn't up-to-da= te at all, nor finished.

Still, the missing thing is time...


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