README.md

cidr-ocaml

This repo implements a Prefix List in ocaml as a way to play with ocaml.

running tests

nix develop
dune runtest

Things that are cool about ocaml

Type inference

When I have the context in my head, the types just get in the way.

Pipeline operator

This is a really cool feature that when used well leads to come staisfying patterns. See the tests for examples.

Function currying

This is probably the thing I like most about ocaml. The ability to curry a function without needing to create another closure makes it very slick to pass partial applications around.

Things that are less cool about ocaml

lack of clarity on "how do I x"

This is probably because ocmal is old and niche but I had a hard time trying to figure out what the "right" way to implement equality comparison is. which do I implement:

• val contains: t -> t -> int
• val equals: t -> t -> bool
• val (=): t -> t -> bool

There seem to be many approaches on testing.

type inference

Makes it hard to debug errors things when calling the wrong funciton ends up as a type error somewhere else.

Preprocessor syntax

some of this stuff is crazy

declaring parameter names on functions defined in mli is annoying because the syntax does not match ml file