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OCaml is famous for allow you to do a lot of things like modules. Like really a lot! Advanced features like functors, aside, it’s really common to either alias module names to something shorter or localize open Module_name to a smaller scope:
In my previous article I mentioned that OCaml’s Stdlib leaves a lot to be desire when it comes to regular expressions. One thing I didn’t discuss back then was that the problem is somewhat mitigated by the excellent module Scanf, which makes it easy to parse structured data.
One of the things that bothered me initially in OCaml was the poor support for working in regular expressions in the standard library. Technically speaking, there’s no support for them at all!
It’s Tuesday morning, and virtually all opam repo ci jobs are failing with timeouts. This comes at a critical time as these are the first jobs following the update of ocurrent/ocaml-version noted on 24th March.
Our sister company Parsimoni sends OCaml into space aboard DPhi Space's Clustergate ride-sharing platform to test the cababilities of SpaceOS.
Some titles make more sense than others. One of my oldest contributions to OCaml was a complete overhaul of Unix.stat et al in ocaml/ocaml#462 which formed part of OCaml 4.03. As part of the work on msvs-detect in late 2015, I’d ended up with a Windows 7 VM which had every single version of Visual Studio back to Visual Studio 6.0. Visual Studio (and Visual C++ before that) has always included the source code for the C Runtime Library (CRT), and as a side-effect of having all these installed Visual Studios, I was able to construct a Git repository showing the evolution of the CRT code over each release (sadly, the licence doesn’t allow this to be pushed publicly). This was particularly useful for studying how the behaviour of the stat implementation had changed over time, particularly with reference to Windows Vista’s symlinks. Anyway, that particular bit of work left me with a habit of often reaching for the CRT whenever something weird’s happening, and that’s led naturally to a fairly detailed bug-fix - and outline for more bug-fixes - in OCaml.
For some time, we have had issues on Ubuntu Noble when extracting tar files within Docker containers. See ocaml/infrastructure#121. This is only an issue on exotic architectures like RISCV and PPC64LE.
