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Printing Data Structures in OCaml

One of the first things developers want to do in any language is print out the value of a variable. In languages with dynamic typing or extensive reflection, this is often a trivial, built-in operation. In OCaml, the story is a bit different. Its strong, static type system requires you to be explicit about how to turn a data structure into a string representation. There is no universal print or console.log that works on any type.

19 Jul 2025

Bozhidar Batsov

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